Quotes about success

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

— Charles J. Givens

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

— Charles J. Givens

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

— Betty Grable

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

— Andrew Granatelli

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

— Albert Gray

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

— John B. S. Haldane

You never become a howling success by just howling.

— Bob Harrington

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

— Spencer Haywood

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.

— Raymond Herzog

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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

— Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

— Napoleon Hill

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

— Hitopadesa

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

— James P. Hogan

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

— Billie Holiday

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

To give your best is to receive the best.

— Raymond Holliwell

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

— Hamilton Holt

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

— Jay House

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

— George Houston

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

— Edgar Watson Howe

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

— Elbert Hubbard

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

— Elbert Hubbard

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

— Kin Hubbard

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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

— Bunker Hunt

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

— Reggie Jackson

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

— John Johnson

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

— Pete Johnson

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

— Stewart B. Johnson

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

— Edward Judson

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

— Henry J. Kaiser

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

— Walter Kane

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

— Joe Karbo

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

— Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

— Helen Keller

It is more important to be of service than successful.

— Robert Kennedy Jr.

Failure has no friends.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Kirk Kirkpatrick

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

— Michael Korda

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

— Michael Korda

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

— Michael Korda

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

— Ann Landers

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Malcolm. W. Little

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Los Angeles Times

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

— Charles Luckman

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

— John W. Mackay

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

— Og Mandino

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

— Og Mandino

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

— Orison Swett Marden

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

— Orison Swett Marden

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

— Orison Swett Marden

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

— Orison Swett Marden

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

— Don Marquis

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

— Don Marquis

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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

— John McEnroe

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

— Cecil B. De Mille

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

— Wilson Mizner

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

— Robert Montgomery

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

— Christopher Morley

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

— Christopher Morley

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

— Joe Namath

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

— Sir Charles Napier

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

— G. K. Nielson

Success has always been a great liar.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

— Earl Nightingale

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Earl Nightingale

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

— Alex Noble

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

— Gregory Nunn

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

— Donny Osmond

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

— George S. Patton

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Jack Penn

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

— Laurence J. Peter

Success tempts many to their ruin.

— Phaedrus

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

— Frank Popoff

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.

— Charles E. Popplestone

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

— Colin Powell

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

— Leontyne Price

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

— Proverb

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

— Dan Quayle

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

— Diana Rankin

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

— Jean Paul Richter

The only journey is the one within.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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?

— Anthony Robbins

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

— Anthony Robbins

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

— Anthony Robbins

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

— Anthony Robbins

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

— Anthony Robbins

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

— Anthony Robbins