Motivational Quotes

Success

Success has always been a great liar.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Success

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

10.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

11.

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

12.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

13.

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

Nielson, G. K.

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

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

Gray, Albert

17.

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

18.

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

19.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Gambetta, Leon

21.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

22.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

25.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

26.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

28.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

32.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

33.

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

34.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

35.

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

36.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

37.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

38.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

41.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

42.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

43.

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

44.

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

45.

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

46.

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

Arthur Rubinstein

47.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

48.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

49.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

50.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker