Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mackay, John W.

Best Quotes about Success

1.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

2.

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

3.

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

4.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

5.

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

Success is failure turned inside out.

7.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

8.

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.

9.

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

10.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

11.

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

Baum, Vicki

12.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

13.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

14.

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

15.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

17.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

18.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

19.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

20.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

22.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

23.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

24.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

25.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

28.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

29.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

30.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

31.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Brown, Bob

33.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

34.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

35.

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

Quayle, Dan

36.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

37.

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

38.

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

39.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

40.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

41.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

42.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

43.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

44.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

45.

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

Meryl Streep

46.

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.

47.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

48.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

49.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

50.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.