Success Quotes
Most popular success quotes
We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
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.
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.
Success is the result of what sociologists like to call "accumulative advantage."
Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes is something few people feel they have to do. But in truth, outcome thinking is one of the most effective means available for making wishes reality.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.
It's important to understand that as soon as you set a goal, three things are going to emerge that stop most people — but not you. If you know that these three things are part of the process, then you can treat them as what they are — just things to handle — rather than letting them stop you. These three obstacles to success are considerations, fears, and roadblocks.
Success is not defined by position or pay scale but by this: doing the most what you do the best.
First [of two traits that distinguish successful startup founders], the ability to monomaniacally and obsessively focus on one thing and one thing only, at the expense of everything else in life.
Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions.
I am afraid that many among you are more concerned about making a living than making a life. You are prone to judge the success of your profession by the index of your salary and the size of the wheelbase on your automobile, rather than the quality of your service to humanity.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Sight not what's near, when aiming at what's far.
Success is the child of Audacity.
Success is a series of glorious defeats.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing recedes like success.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-it-iveness; third, common sense.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.
Success is getting what you go after; happiness is liking it after you get it.
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The road to success is always under construction.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Character and ideals are catching. When you associate with men who aspire to the highest and best, you expose yourself to the qualities that make men great.
It is not the man of great native talent who wins, but he who pushes his talent, however small, to its utmost capacity.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The intense focusing skills it takes to become a lawyer or a doctor are the same skills it takes to become a great investor.
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up, and boy, does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
No one ever excused his way to success.
There is a close correlation between getting up in the morning and getting up in the world.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
Victory is in the quality of competition, not the final score.
Laurels don't make much of a cushion.
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions—the hero and the sidekick.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
I couldn't wait for success . . . so I went ahead without it.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
If at first you do succeed—try to hide your astonishment.
On this earth, in the final analysis, each of us gets exactly what he deserves. But only the successful recognize this.
Success is not forever, and failure's not fatal.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Success is often just an idea away.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
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 a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Pixar's seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Enthusiasm is more important than any other commodity. It will find solutions when none are apparent, and it will achieve success where none is thought possible.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
The man who succeeds is never conceded the right to fail.
If every successful man needs a woman behind him, every successful woman needs at least three men.
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Success covers many blunders.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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?
We may stop ourselves when going up, never when going down.
As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by dint of hard work.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
If a man can build a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.
The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
![[Success] means that you have, as performers will call it, "fuck you" money. . . . All that means is that I don't have to do what I don't want to do. - Johnny Carson quote.](/img/q/60/21660A-success-means-that-you-have-as-performers-will-call-it-johnny-carson.png)
[Success] means that you have, as performers will call it, "fuck you" money. . . . All that means is that I don't have to do what I don't want to do.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
The way to go from rags to riches is to start by getting a decent set of rags.
Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.
![Know your aim, and live for that one thing. We have only one life. The secret of success is concentration; wherever there has been a great life, or a great work, that [concentration] has gone before. Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing. - Olive Schreiner quote.](/img/q/75/25775A-know-your-aim-and-live-for-that-one-thing-we-olive-schreiner.png)
Know your aim, and live for that one thing. We have only one life. The secret of success is concentration; wherever there has been a great life, or a great work, that [concentration] has gone before. Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
High positions are like the summit of high, steep rocks: eagles and reptiles alone can reach them.
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the bird has flown.
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.
To the eye of failure success is an accident with a presumption of crime.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
One of the ingredients most necessary for success is failure.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and as lonely as the north pole.
One day you are a signature, next day, you are an autograph.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single over-riding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that objective.
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.
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
You must act as if everything depended on your individual efforts. The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Self-trust, we know is the first secret of success.
Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is—Success.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.... Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Success is a man who has the love and trust of a woman, a job he likes, and an abiding sense of humor. Success is a man whose children love him and have made him proud of them. Success is a man who dies at home in his sleep after a good life.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds—success.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Success is having to worry about every damned thing in the world except money.
The great north-east migration.
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
A man is a success if he gets up in the mornin' and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Success has ruined many a man.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Success...is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early—it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.
He was a self-made man man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed?
Once we find the fruits of success, the taste is nothing like what we had anticipated.
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease.
In America, success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters.
One definition of success might be refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger.
Sweet Smell of Success.
If you want to succeed in life, the saying goes, you must pick three bones to carry with you at all times: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.
I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.
There is only one success...to be able to spend your own life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Success is like the sunshine—it brings the rattlesnakes out.
Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.
Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me you are indifferent to being heard. Everything about you screams to be heard.
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
To freely bloom—that is my definition of success.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons, and eating only the top half of each of them.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
There is no deodorant like success.
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success.
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal is the secret of success. But success? What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Success has made failures of many men.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than successful at something I hated.
Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and don't know it.
Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. Success is the lurking place of failure; but who can tell when the turning-place will come?
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. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Success and failure—we think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions—the hero and the sidekick.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
You're not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.
You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
My 1 repeated learning in life: "There Are No Adults." Everyone's making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it.
All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.
The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.
A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming.
Eat right. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Imagine an incredible future (even if you don't believe it). Work toward a flexible schedule. Do things you can steadily improve at. Help others (if you've already helped yourself). Reduce daily decisions to routine.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the 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 that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
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.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.
I couldn't wait for success ... so I went ahead without it.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
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.
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
It's not enough that I should succeed—others should fail.
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
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.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother; if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success.
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy—it won't come out while you're watching.
Success is dependent on effort.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Success is that old ABC—ability, breaks, and courage.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
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 seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no 'top'.
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.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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.
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That—with the squalid interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
The road to success is wherever people need another road.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
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.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Having the self-belief that you will be able to figure things out as you go along is critical to success at anything hard. Get started and trust yourself. No one has all the answers at the beginning.
True success comes when you use your talents and your genuine kindness to do work that is aligned with your values and passions.
When you are creating opportunities, it's essential to find the key stakeholders and bring them along with you. Make them a part of the process. By making it clear that you are looking to collaborate instead of compete, you'll earn their trust and their respect.
By taking on more than was asked of me, I had proven my diligence and effectiveness. I had looked up and seen what my boss really needed and then stepped up.
A heuristic on whether you have control of your life: can you take naps?
Contra the prevailing belief, "success" isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.
You have lived a successful life if, as you grow older, the people who you hope love you actually do.
Most people sweat it out for years and encounter some degree of humiliation and failure along the way [to success].
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things unsuccessful people don't want to do. Most people don't want to work more than they have to. They do the minimum they are paid to do. That's not the way to get ahead. Always do the best you can, not the least you can get away with. When you do your job, even if its just cleaning an office, do it as if somebody you want to impress is watching your every step.
Success comes from doing something extraordinary with passion and intensity.
Success is if you don't derive a secret pleasure from other people's failure.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
