Success Quotes

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. 
David Brinkley 

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. 
Michael Jordan 

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. 
Bill Cosby 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. 
Abraham Lincoln 

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it. 
Bruce Lee 

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. 
Bill Cosby 

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. 
Napoleon Hill 

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. 
Henry Ford 

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 
Winston Churchill 

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. 
David Frost 

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. 
Dale Carnegie 

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. 
Swami Vivekananda 

Action is the foundational key to all success. 
Pablo Picasso 

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. 
W. C. Fields 

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 

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 

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. 
Bill Gates 

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. 
George Edward Woodberry 

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 
Albert Einstein 

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. 
Jim Rohn 

Failure is success if we learn from it. 
Malcolm Forbes 

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. 
J. Paul Getty 

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. 
Lydia M. Child 

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. 
Vince Lombardi 

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. 
Mark Twain 

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. 
Harold MacMillan 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 
Winston Churchill 

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. 
Vince Lombardi 

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. 
Albert Einstein 

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. 
Erma Bombeck 

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. 
Dale Carnegie 

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. 
George S. Patton 

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. 
Anthony J. D'Angelo 

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. 
Mark Twain 

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. 
Theodore Roosevelt 

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? 
Charlie Sheen 

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. 
Winston Churchill 

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. 
Confucius 

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. 
Malcolm X 

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 
Mark Twain

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. 
Bo Bennett 

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 
Benjamin Disraeli 

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. 
Abdul Kalam 

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. 
Morihei Ueshiba 

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. 
Ayn Rand 

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. 
Ross Perot 

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. 
Oscar Wilde 

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. 
Jonathan Winters 

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. 
Dale Carnegie 

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 
Benjamin Disraeli 

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up. 
Woody Allen 

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 
Henry Ford 

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. 
Juliana Hatfield 

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. 
Henry Ward Beecher 

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. 
Margaret Thatcher 

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. 
Arnold H. Glasow 

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. 
William Feather 

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. 
Jon Bon Jovi

Success is dependent on effort. 
Sophocles 

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 
Christopher Morley 

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt 

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. 
Shirley Jones 

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. 
Arnold H. Glasow 

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. 
Sloan Wilson 

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. 
Aeschylus 

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. 
George S. Patton 

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? 
Logan P. Smith 

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. 
Dale Carnegie 

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. 
Ambrose Bierce 

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 

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. 
Arnold Schwarzenegger 

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 

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. 
Carrot Top 

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. 
Elbert Hubbard 

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. 
Salvador Dali 

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

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. 
Kevin Spacey 

Nothing succeeds like success. 
Alexandre Dumas 

 Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewing 

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. 
Emily Dickinson 

They succeed, because they think they can. 
Virgil 

The starting point of all achievement is desire. 
Napoleon Hill 

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. 
Al Bernstein 

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. 
B. C. Forbes 

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. 
Irving Berlin 

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. 
Larry King 

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

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. 
Charles Luckman 

Nothing recedes like success. 
Walter Winchell 

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. 
W. Clement Stone 

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. 
Lily Tomlin 

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. 
Barbra Streisand 

We fall forward to succeed. 
Mary Kay Ash 

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail. 
David Merrick 

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. 
Paul J. Meyer 

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. 
Alan Price

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