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Success Quotations

  1. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. - Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States)

  2. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford (Founder of the Ford Motor Company)

  3. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. - Henry Ford (Founder of the Ford Motor Company)

  4. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer)

  5. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer)

  6. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill ( British prime minister who received the Nobel Prize in Literature)

  7. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill ( British prime minister who received the Nobel Prize in Literature)

  8. It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Winston Churchill ( British prime minister who received the Nobel Prize in Literature)

  9. 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 (American author)

  10. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. - Napoleon Hill (American author)

  11. You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. - Napoleon Hill (American author)

  12. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. - Napoleon Hill (American author)

  13. The starting point of all achievement is desire. - Napoleon Hill (American author)

  14. 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 ( Indian Hindu monk)

  15. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. - Bruce Lee (martial artist, actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, and filmmaker. The founder of Jeet Kune Do)

  16. 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 (American football coach)

  17. Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. - Vince Lombardi (American football coach)

  18. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie (American writer, lecturer, and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.)

  19. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie (American writer, lecturer, and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.)

  20. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie (American writer, lecturer, and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.)

  21. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. - Dale Carnegie (American writer, lecturer, and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.)

  22. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry (American literary critic and poet)

  23. 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 ( African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents)

  24. Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J. Paul Getty (Anglo-American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company)

  25. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics)

  26. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics)

  27. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - Harold MacMillan (1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)

  28. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn (American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker)

  29. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates (American business magnate and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen)

  30. Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. - Bill Gates (American business magnate and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen)

  31. Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes (publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes)

  32. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. - Lydia M. Child (American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist and Unitarian.)

  33. 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 (General in the United States Army most well known for his command of the Seventh United States Army)

  34. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George S. Patton (General in the United States Army most well known for his command of the Seventh United States Army)

  35. All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. - Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist)

  36. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist)

  37. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist)

  38. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the United States.)

  39. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. - Confucius ( Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history.)

  40. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. - Ayn Rand (Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter)

  41. Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. - Morihei Ueshiba (Famous martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art of aikido)

  42. Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. - Abdul Kalam ( Abdul Kalam usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India.)

  43. 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 ( Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, née Roberts is a British politician)

  44. If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X (Born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.)

  45. 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 (American businessman best known for running for President of the United States)

  46. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley (American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.)

  47. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.)

  48. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli (1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure)

  49. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli (1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure)

  50. Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. - Oscar Wilde (An Irish writer and poet)

  51. Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden ( American basketball player and coach. )

  52. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century)

  53. Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocles (one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived.)

  54. They succeed, because they think they can. - Virgil (Usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.)

  55. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. - Henry Ward Beecher (A prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century.)

  56. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather ( American publisher and author, based in Cleveland, Ohio)

  57. 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 ( American author)

  58. 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 (American-born essayist and critic. Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey.)

  59. 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 (British playwright, novelist and short story writer)

  60. 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 (American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater)

  61. Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard ( American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher)

  62. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. - Elbert Hubbard ( American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher)

  63. He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. - Elbert Hubbard ( American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher)

  64. Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus ( first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.)

  65. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. - George Washington ( One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.)

  66. Success has always been a great liar. - Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist.)

  67. Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. - W. Clement Stone ( Businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.)

  68. Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. - W. Clement Stone ( Businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.)

  69. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. - W. Clement Stone ( Businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.)

  71. Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard (French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles.)

  72. You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. - Zig Ziglar (American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.)

  73. Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity. - Zig Ziglar (American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.)

  74. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Johnson ( English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.)

  75. I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale (Celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.)

  76. Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero.)

  77. No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. - Alfred Adler ( Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.)

  78. Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. - John Carmack (American game programmer and the co-founder of id Software.)

  79. I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. - Alain Prost ( Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver.)

  80. Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. - Og Mandino (American author. He wrote the bestselling book The Greatest Salesman in the World.)

  81. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. - Paulo Coelho (Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today.)

  82. However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.)

  83. I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. - Rush Limbaugh (conservative American radio talk show host and political commentator.)

  84. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides (one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles.)

  85. But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. - Bodhidharma ( Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th/6th century CE. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Ch'an to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch.)

  86. There's no abiding success without commitment. - Tony Robbins ( American self-help author and motivational speaker.)

  87. Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. - Johnny Carson (American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.)

  88. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. - Charles Caleb Colton ( English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.)

  89. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - Charles Caleb Colton ( English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.)

  90. No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams (American educator and historian.)

  91. You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success. - Michael Bloomberg (American business magnate, politician and philanthropist.)

  92. 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 ( U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.)

  93. Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. - Sam Ewing (Former baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. )

  94. Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. - Al Bernstein (American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker.)

  95. Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. - Ambrose Bierce (American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.)

  96. The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. - B. C. Forbes (Scottish financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine.)

  97. The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin (Russian-born American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.)

  98. Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. - Charles Luckman (Businessman and an American architect, famous as the "Boy Wonder of American Business")

  99. Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexandre Dumas (Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure.)

  100. Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. - Emily Dickinson ( American poet.)

  101. Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. - Larry King (American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards.)

  102. Nothing recedes like success. - Walter Winchell (American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.)

  103. We fall forward to succeed. - Mary Kay Ash (American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.)

  104. It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.- David Merrick (prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer)

  105. The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. - Alan Price (English musician, best known as the original keyboardist for the English band The Animals and for his subsequent solo work.)

  106. We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - Ronald Reagan (40th President of the United States.)

  107. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell (Eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.)

  108. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller ( American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.)

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