Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Meryl Streep

Best Quotes about Success

1.

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

2.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

3.

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

Smith, May V.

4.

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

Walters, Dottie

5.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

6.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

7.

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

Confucius

8.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

9.

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

Arthur Rubinstein

10.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

11.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

12.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

13.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

18.

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

Baum, Vicki

19.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

20.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

21.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

22.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

23.

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

24.

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

25.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

26.

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

27.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

33.

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

35.

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

36.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

38.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

Coffin, Harold

41.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

42.

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

43.

Success doesn't suck.