Success Quotes

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

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
- Aeschylus -

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

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
- Alan Price -

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein -

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce -

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo -

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasow -

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Arnold H. Glasow -

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand -

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
- B. C. Forbes -

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
- Barbra Streisand -

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Benjamin Disraeli -

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

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

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates -

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 -

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
- Carrot Top -

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman -

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

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

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

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

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley -

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
- David Frost -

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
- David Merrick -

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
- Earl Wilson -

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

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck -

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns -

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George Edward Woodberry -

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- George S. Patton -

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
- Harold MacMillan -

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher -

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
- Irving Berlin -

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
- J. Paul Getty -

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn -

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- Joe Paterno -

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles -

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
- Jon Bon Jovi -

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
- Jonathan Winters -

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
- Juliana Hatfield -

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
- Kevin Spacey -

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
- Larry King -

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
- Lily Tomlin -

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Logan P. Smith -

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
- Lydia M. Child -

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

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
- Margaret Thatcher -

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan -

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde -

Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso -

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
- Paul J. Meyer -

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 -

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali -

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

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
- Shirley Jones -

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
- Sloan Wilson -

Success is dependent on effort.
- Sophocles -

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
- Tennessee Williams -

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

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi -

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
- W. C. Fields -

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.
- W. Somerset Maugham -

Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell -

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather -

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