Quotes about success

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

— John D. Rockefeller

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

— Jim Rohn

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

— Jim Rohn

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

— Jim Rohn

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

— Jim Rohn

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

— Charles B. Rouss

Success doesn't suck.

— Darius Rucker

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

— John Ruskin

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.

— John Ruskin

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.

— John Ruskin

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

— David Sarnoff

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

— Robert H. Schuller

The man who has done his best has done everything.

— Charles M. Schwab

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

— David J. Schwartz

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

— Albert Schweitzer

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

— Albert Schweitzer

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

— Albert Schweitzer

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

— Seneca

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

— Seneca

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

— William Shakespeare

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

— George Bernard Shaw

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

— Edgar Shoaff

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

— Don Shula

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

— Ruth Smeltzer

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

— May V. Smith

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

— Roy L. Smith

There is no success without hardship.

— Sophocles

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

— Sophocles

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Konstantin Stanislavisky

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

— Barbara Streisand

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

— Paul Sweeney

Success is a journey, not a destination.

— Ben Sweetland

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

— Publilius Syrus

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

— Fran Tarkenton

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

— William M. Thackeray

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.

— Margaret Thatcher

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

— Robert Thibodeau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

— Lily Tomlin

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

— Arnold Toynbee

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

— Brian Tracy

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

— Anthony Trollope

Success depends on our using, and not opposing...

— Thomas Troward

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

— Goldstein S. Truism

Keep breathing.

— Sophie Tucker

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

— Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

— Mark Twain

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

— Source Unknown

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

— Source Unknown

Success is failure turned inside out.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

— Source Unknown

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

— Source Unknown

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

— Source Unknown

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

— Source Unknown

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

— Source Unknown

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

— Source Unknown

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

— Source Unknown

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

— Source Unknown

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

— Source Unknown

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

— Source Unknown

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

— Source Unknown

Success and money have nothing in common.

— Source Unknown

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

— Source Unknown

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

— Source Unknown

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

— Source Unknown

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

— Denis Waitley

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

— Basil S. Walsh

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

— Dottie Walters

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

— An Wang

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

— William A. Ward

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

— William A. Ward

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

— Booker T. Washington

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

Success action is cumulative in its results.

— Wallace D. Wattles

There is always room at the top.

— Daniel Webster

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

— Bishop Herbert E. Welch

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

— H.G. Wells

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

— C. W. Wendte

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

— Howard Whitman

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

— Howard Whitman

Nothing succeeds like success.

— Oscar Wilde

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

— Tennessee Williams

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

— Tennessee Williams

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

— Marianne Williamson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

— Charles E. Wilson