Motivational Quotes

Success

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Success

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

11.

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

Anderson, Sparky

12.

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

Tracy, Brian

13.

When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

14.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

15.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

16.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

18.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

19.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

20.

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

21.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

22.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

Hunt, Bunker

24.

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

25.

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

26.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

27.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

28.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

29.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Baum, Vicki

31.

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

32.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Wilbur Wright

34.

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

35.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

36.

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

37.

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

Henry Kissinger

38.

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

Wilson, Earl

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

41.

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

42.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

44.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

45.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

46.

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

Confucius

47.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

48.

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

Billings, Josh

49.

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

50.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett