Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

- Hogan, James P.

Best Quotes about Success

1.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

2.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

3.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

4.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

5.

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

6.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

7.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

8.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

9.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

10.

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

11.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

12.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

13.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

14.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

15.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

16.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

17.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

18.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

19.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

20.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

21.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

22.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

23.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

24.

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

25.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

27.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

28.

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

29.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

31.

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

32.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

33.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

34.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

35.

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

36.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

37.

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

38.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

39.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

40.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

41.

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

42.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

43.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

44.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

45.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

46.

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

47.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

48.

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

Barack Obama

49.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

50.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama