Motivational Quotes

Success

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

1.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

2.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

4.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

5.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

6.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

7.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

8.

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

9.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

10.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

11.

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

12.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

14.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

15.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

16.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

17.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

18.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

19.

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

20.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

22.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

23.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

24.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

25.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

26.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

27.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

28.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

29.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

30.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

31.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

32.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

33.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

34.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

36.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

37.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

39.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

40.

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

41.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

42.

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

43.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

44.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

46.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

47.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

48.

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

49.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

50.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein