Success Quotes

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen.
Unknown

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
John D. Rockefeller

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
Unknown

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 Lambardi

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

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Mason Cooley

Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
Robert Albert Bloch

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan

Talk does not cook rice.
Chinese Proverb

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

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: try too hard.
Malcolm Forbes

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson

If your belief system has not molded the life you desire, how you think will need to change.
Asha Tyson

We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande

One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

Remove failure as an option.
Joan Lunden

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones

Nothing fails like success.
Gerald Nachman

Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.
Anonymous

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes

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

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.
Mason Cooley

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

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

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden

There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.”
Carrie Fisher

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland

Actually, I’m an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
Monty Hall

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.  Courage is what counts.
Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton

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

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
Thomas J. Watson

What is success?  It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler

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

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
Mark Caine

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

I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
Anonymous

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.
Unknown

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

The real oppurtunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Zig Ziglar

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

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
Donald A. Miller

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.  ~Walter Cronkite

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Unknown

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
Edgar Degas

To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare

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

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Victor Hugo

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

The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis

Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins

It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy, Lady Astor

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
Unknown

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

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
David Bly

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
Michael Korda