Motivational Quotes

Success

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Success

1.

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

Dulles, John Foster

2.

Success and money have nothing in common.

3.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

4.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

5.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

6.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

7.

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

Fillmore, Charles

8.

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

9.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

10.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

12.

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

13.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

15.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

16.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

19.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

20.

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

Thomas A. Edison

21.

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

22.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

23.

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

24.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

25.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

26.

Success is failure turned inside out.

27.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

28.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

29.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

31.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

32.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

33.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

35.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

36.

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

Collier, Robert

37.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

39.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

40.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

41.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

42.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

43.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

44.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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