Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

1.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

2.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

3.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

4.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

6.

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

7.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

8.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

9.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

12.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

13.

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

14.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

15.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

16.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

18.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

20.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

21.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

22.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

23.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

24.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

25.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

26.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

27.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

28.

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

29.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

30.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

31.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

32.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

33.

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

34.

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Robbins, Anthony

36.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

39.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

40.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

41.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

42.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

43.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

45.

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

Korda, Michael

46.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

47.

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

Wooden, John

48.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

49.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

50.

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