Success Quotes

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

Thoreau

Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.

James Clear

Success comes to those who have the willpower to win over their snooze buttons.

Success in this life, success in gaining the future life, depends upon a faithful, conscientious attention to the little things. The symmetrical structure of a strong, beautiful character is built up by individual acts of duty. And our faithfulness should characterize our life in the least as well as the greatest of its details.

Integrity in little things, the performance of little acts of fidelity and little deeds of kindness, will gladden the path of life; and when our work on earth is ended, it will be found that every one of the little duties faithfully performed, has exerted an influence for good - an influence that can never perish.

Ellen G White

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.

Maya Angelou

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Joshua 1:8

People only fail when they either give up, don’t work hard enough, or don’t really want it.

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children; whose life was an inspiration, whose memory a benediction.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

Successful people do the things they know they need to do even when they don’t feel like doing them.

I would picture myself being belted by waves, by hailstones, being swept away from the French coast by the tides, always fighting these adversities and finally achieving my goal. As a result of this mental buildup, I never once dived into the Channel thinking that I mightn’t succeed.

Channel swimmer

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Edward John Phelps

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Mark Twain

Success is a state of mind.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.

Sister Mary Lauretta

Success builds success.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

What is 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.

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

Success is knowing that what you are doing is heling you and others lead a better, happier, healthier life.

Kara Goldin

The door to success has two signs – Push, and Pull.

Jewish Saying

Each of us has the makings of success in some endeavour, but we will achieve this only if we apply our wills and work at it.

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

Winston Churchill

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Mark Twain

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

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

Christopher Morley

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

John D Rockefeller

Seek + serve = success.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

John D Rockefeller

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

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

James Clear

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Earl Nightingale

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Mike Ditka

Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

Gary Keller

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific simple habits that always lead to success.

Robert J Ringer

I have learned more from my mistakes than my successes.

Sir Humphrey Davy

Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

John C Maxwell

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Dale Carnegie

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John D Rockefeller

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

Arnold H Glasgow

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles De Montesquiu

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time.

Franklin Field

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

Success equals goals…all else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

No one 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

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never makes a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J D’Angelo

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that’s where you will find success. On the far side of failure.

Thomas J Watson Sr

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Thoreau

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Vince Lombardi

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

Success is not measured by what a man accomplished, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Charles Lindberg

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Paul J Meyer

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desire to reach their potential.

John Maxwell

A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.

Robert J Lumsden

Your greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

Soichiro Honda

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas Watson Sr

It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.

Vince Lombardi

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Thomas Edison

Success breeds success.

Mia Hamm

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

Robert Collier

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H G Wells

Do it! People who succeed don’t just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they’re looking for.

Dr Phil

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Napoleon Hill

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we WILL do, by finding out what we WONT do.

Samuel Smiles

Presence of mind and courage in distress, are more than brave armies to procure success.

John Dryden

God gives opportunities, and success depends on what is made of them.

Ellen G White

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

Thoreau

Success is using your talents to uplift others.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Victory loves preparation.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

Oswald Avery

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Jim Rohn

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Mark Twain

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.

Marilyn Vos Savant

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable.

Plato

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.

Stephen Kaggwa

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

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

Napoleon Hill

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

Epictetus

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Jack Penn

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Hill

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

John C Maxwell

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

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

Arnold Glasow

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

Success = not what gets done, but what gets done with God.

Fail often so you can succeed sooner.

Tom Kelley

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O McKay

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

Arianna Huffington

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

Nobody plans to fail, they simply fail to plan.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

I have learned that 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 while trying to succeed.

Booker T Washington

Success = maintaining inner calm all through the day no matter what happens.

One sound idea is all that one needs to achieve success.

Napoleon Hill

In most things, success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T S Eliot

Success is not the result of chance or of destiny, it is the outworking of God’s own providence, the reward of faith and discretion, of virtue and persevering effort.

Ellen G White

Winning is a habit; unfortunately so is losing. Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.

Vince Lombardi

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

Albert Einstein

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?

Mark 8:36

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Success is generally the result of many failures.

H W Shaw

Success is no success if it makes not a happy mind.

E M Goulburn

The secret of success lies in embracing every opportunity of being useful.

Wellington

No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labour and persevering application.

A T Stewart