Success Quotes

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

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

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.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

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

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

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

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

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

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

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

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.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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

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

Success is dependent on effort.

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.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

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

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Fortune befriends the bold.

They succeed, because they think they can.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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

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

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.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

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

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

There is no substitute for victory.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

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

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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

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

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

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

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

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

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

To be prepared is half the victory.

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

Much effort, much prosperity.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

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.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

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

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.