Success Quotes and Sayings
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
Joe Paterno
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.
M.H. Alderson
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.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
Miguel de Unamuno
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.”
Carrie Fisher
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted
Success has made failures of many men.
Cindy Adams
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
Donald A. Miller
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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.
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
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
Walter Cronkite
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That – with the squalid interpretation put on the word success – is our national disease.
William James
The road to success is always under construction
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no “top.” ~Nancy Barcus
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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
Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success.
Garrett Hazel
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour — property, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
Jonatan Martensson
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.
There is no success but your own success.
Leslie Grimutter
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
There are no gains without pains.
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
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George Smith Patton
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
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 Smith
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.
Laurence Shames
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
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
Arthur McAuliff
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen.
If at first you do succeed – try to hide your astonishment.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.