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Success Quotes

Quotes on Success - Quotes about Success

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

May these quotes about success give you direction and suggest answers to the question, "How to be Successful in Life."

Success Quotes by Famous People

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

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Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan

 

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Quotes to Help You Succeed

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

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

Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen in full color
with surround sound - so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- Anonymous

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quotes about Success

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

The success of a project is best predicted by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

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 little more persistence, a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

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

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial,
hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

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

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong

Quotes on Success

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules.
Sports teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose, it teaches you about life.
- Billie Jean King

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


May you be successful in life in whatever ways you choose.

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