Success Quotes – Success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, the attainment of popularity or profit, the outcome of an undertaking, one who achieves assumed goals.
Complete List of Success Quotes
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. – Edward B. Butler
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington
If at first you do succeed – try to hide your astonishment.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. – W. Somerset Maugham
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. – Ayn Rand
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. – Vince Lombardi
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
The road to success is wherever people need another road. – Robert Brault
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. – B.C. Forbes
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. – J. Paul Getty
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
It’s not enough that I should succeed – others should fail. – David Merrick
It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. – Carrot Top
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick. – Laurence Shames
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – George Smith Patton
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. – Harold MacMillan
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced. – Swami Vivekananda
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman cain
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasgow
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. – George Sheehan
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. – Jonatan MÃ¥rtensson
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. – Irving Berlin
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching. – Tennessee Williams
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no “”top.”” – Nancy Barcus
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. – Ross Perot
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. – Elbert Hubbard
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. – Walter Cronkite
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. – Oscar Wilde
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. – Donald A. Miller
Success has made failures of many men. – Cindy Adams
Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. – Larry King
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. – George Bernard Shaw
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Orison Swett Marden
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. – David Frost
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. – Lily Tomlin
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. – M.H. Alderson
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. – Zig Ziglar
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building.
Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good. – Joe Paterno
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. – Harry F. Banks
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? – James Allen
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. – David Bly
