Success & Achievement Quotes

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

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

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

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

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

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

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

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Success and failure go hand in hand.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

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.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

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

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

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?

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.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

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

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.