Success Quotes

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.

Eighty percent of success is just showing up.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends-wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

People fall forward to success.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

We fall forward to succeed.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against one’s fellows.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

veni, vidi, vici

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.

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

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

By different methods different men excel;
But where is he who can do all things well?

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed, it betrays us.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, or you don’t want it intensely enough.

Vice is its own reward.

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

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Success is the child of audacity.

Be awful nice to 'em goin’ up, because you’re gonna meet 'em all comin’ down.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

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 lived. This is to have succeeded.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in the company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion. All his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society and what it calls whole souls, are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it-so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view-as well as your own.

Success has ruin’d many a man.

The people who own small businesses in this country work far more than they should for the return they're getting.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Their research suggestes that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

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

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

One way to keep momentum going is to have contantly greater goals.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.

The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

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

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Big shots are little shots who kept shooting.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Business is about converting prospects into customers. Everything else is secondary.

The success of every single business in the world hinges on how well it communicates - with clients, potential clients, suppliers, stakeholders, within itself and with the world.

In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education. And in this country, the success of our children cannot depend more on where they live than on their potential.

Either attempt it not, or succeed.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

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

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.

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

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.

His head was turned by too great success.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.

Not because of an extraordinary talent did he succeed, but because he had a capacity of a level for business and not above it.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sort 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.

Men are born to succeed-not to fail.

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

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

You can never quit. Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Lawyers are like other people--fools on the average; but it is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other.

To succeed in other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

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.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

Who never climbs as rarely falls.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Winning has always meant much to me; but winning friends has meant the most.

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

When there is harmony between the mind, heart and resolution then nothing is impossible.

No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.

It's not what you sell that matters. It's how you sell it.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

You can succeed in anything if you give somebody else the credit for doing it.