Quotes on success, quotations on success, success quotes and success sayings

Anything you can conceive and believe, you can achieve!
--Unknown

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
--Gen. George S. Patton

A limit on what you will do puts a limit on what you can do.
--Dexter Yager

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
--Aristotle

All my successes have been built on my failures.
--Benjamin Disraeli

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
--Mark Twain

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
--Og Mandino

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
--Charles M. Schwab

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
--Stephen R. Covey, Principle-centered Leadership

Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck.
--Anonymous

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
--William Hazlitt

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions.
--Orsen Marden

A person who is successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that unsuccessful people will not do.
--Dexter Yager

A winner is one who accepts his failures and mistakes, picks up the pieces, and continues striving to reach his goals.
--Dexter Yager

Be ready when opportunity comes... luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
--Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
--Unknown

Champions are willing to do the things they dislike to create something they do like. Don't let the things that matter most be at the mercy of the things that matter least.
--Dexter Yager

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

Discipline can be the difference between success and failure.
--Anonymous

Do it! Move it! Make it happen! No one ever sat their way to success.
--Unknown

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

Do what is right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one.
--Elvis Presley

Each of us is born to shape a destiny for himself. The depth and the extent of that destiny are measured by the personal goals we set.
--Paul J. Meyer

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
--Norman Vincent Peale

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
--Napoleon Hill

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
--Robert Schuller

Failure is a better teacher than success, but she seldom finds an apple on her desk.
--Anonymous

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
--William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
--Denis E. Waitley

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
--Vince Lombardi

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
--Bessie Anderson Stanley

Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.
--Thomas A. Edison

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

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

I don't think I'd be a success on TV if I hadn't been fired earlier in my career. There's got to be a glitch along the way, or else you lose touch with reality.
--Maury Povich

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.
--George Burns

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 his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
--George Bernard Shaw

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
--W.C. Fields

I feel the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
--Reggie Jackson

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.
--Vince Lombardi

If you don't think you can become rich, you very rarely do. You have to start by believing that you can, and then crave it passionately.
--Mark Fisher

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
--Barbara Sher

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
--Thomas Edison

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
--Douglas Adams

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
--Unknown

It never occurs to me that there are things that I can't do.
--Whoopi Goldberg, on 60 Minutes, 2/14/93

It's not failure, but low aim is crime.
--Lowell

It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them.
--Rush Limbaugh

It's visualization in a positive sense. I never pictured myself crashing or falling off a beam. I always pictured myself doing my routine perfectly.
--Mary Lou Retton

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
--Kareem Abdul-Jabar

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
--Unknown

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
--Josh Billings

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

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.
--Stephen Covey

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
--Henry David Thoreau

Mental toughness is essential to success.
--Vince Lombardi

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
--H. Ross Perot

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
--Scott Adams (Dilbert)

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
--Charles Kendall Adams

No rules for success will work if you don't.
--Unknown

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
--A. Lou Vickery

Not in time, place, or circumstance, but in the man lies success.
--Charles Rouss

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
--Vince Lombardi

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
--Thomas Fuller

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
--Malcom S. Forbes

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
--Robert F. Kennedy

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
--Herman Hesse

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
--Norman Vincent Peale

People who succeed, it's not that they need to step on somebody. But they have a path in view and they just keep moving along.
--William Shatner

Potential is: dormant ability, unused success and capped capability.
--Randall D. Worley

Rudy's Rules:
Rule #1 - Everyone can be anyone they want to be. "It's your life and it's up to you to take charge of it... You must take action to reach the thing you desire."
Rule #2 - Make anger work for you. "Anger is a normal reaction. It's what you do with anger that makes the difference in your life ... direct your anger towards a goal ... embrace [anger] as a friend instead of fearing it as an enemy ... from anger comes determination comes triumph."
Rule #3 - Everyone should dream. "It starts with a dream. It starts with building castles in the air and then knowing the difference between a fantasy and a dream and finally making it come true."
Rule #4 - Eliminate the confusion. "You can't look at the enormity of what you want to do. At least you can't look at it all at once. ... visualize exactly what you want to be, and only that. If you can visualize what you want to be and eliminate the confusion and fears, that's when you start getting places."
Rule #5 - It's better to do something and fail than to do nothing and succeed. "Fear comes in two basic forms: fear of failure and fear of success." Fear of success is "really the fear of the responsibilities that will come when you reach your goal ... the shame isn't in failing, it's in not trying ... the harder the struggle, the greater the reward at journeys end."
Rule #6 - Get the dollar signs out of your eyes. "There's nothing wrong with making money. It's only wrong when it's your primary objective ... money isn't what it's all about. Doing what you truly want to do is."
Rule #7 - Quit making excuses. "What we're really talking about here is commitment. Until you make a commitment to your dream, it's not a commitment at all. It's just another fantasy. And fantasies don't come true because they're not real, we're not committed to them. When we make commitments, they become dreams. And dreams are very real."
Rule #8 - Dreams don't have time limits, but timing is everything. "Dreams are real, time limits are artificial. Because no time is the right time and no time is the wrong time. Not for being the person you want to be."
Rule #9 - Never Quit. "Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever."
Rule #10 - When you achieve one dream, dream another. "Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.
--Rudy Ruettiger

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
--Woody Allen

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
--Unknown

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

Success demands singleness of purpose.
--Vince Lombardi

Success doesn't come to you... you go to it.
--Marva Collins

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
--John Maxwell

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.
--Napoleon Hill ("Think and Grow Rich")

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
--Unknown

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing and utilizing the talents of others.
--Unknown

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
--Danny Thomas

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, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.
--Fran Tarkenton

Success is a journey, not a destination.
--Ben Sweetland

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

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.
--Anonymous

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

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.
--Vince Lombardi

Success is measured not in achievement for self, but in accomplishment for others. (Thanks to Jeff Wood!)
--Jeff Wood

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

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

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

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

Success results more from hard work than talent.
--Dexter Yager

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

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of 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 even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
--Unknown

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi

The first law of success... is concentration--to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
--William Mathews

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
--Philip Caldwell

The journey is the reward.
--Tao saying

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.
--William Strong

The process of succeeding can be seen as a series of trials in which your vision constantly guides you toward your target while in your actual performance you are regularly slightly off target. Success in any area requires constantly readjusting your behavior as the result of feedback from your experience.
--Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan - "Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life"

There are three strategies for success:
1) a big waste basket--you must know what to eliminate;
2) know what to preserve;
3) know when to say no, for developing the power to say no gives us the capacity to say yes.
--A.P. Goethe

There are two rules for success. . . 1) Never tell everything you know.
--Roger H. Lincoln

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
--Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure. Only feedback.
--Robert Allen

There is no luck involved in success. Luck is a way of saying you don't have what it takes.
--Dexter Yager

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
--George Burton Adams, American educator, historian

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
--Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.
--Vince Lombardi

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

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
--Edwin Whipple

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
--Kahlil Gibran

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
--Unknown

They never fail who die in a great cause.
--Lord Byron

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

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.
--Vince Lombardi

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
--Mae West

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
--Samuel Beckett

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

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a right to an empire.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
--The Metro Para pledge

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it is more important to learn from our successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
--Norman Vincent Peale

What we nourish will flourish. We nourish whatever we give our attention to. Small wonder that so many of our problems get to be such vigorous, lusty weeds in our garden of life!
--J. Sig Paulson

What you see (in your mind's eye) is what you get. Proof: What you saw is pretty much what you got!
--Joe Klock

Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
--Vince Lombardi

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
--Chinese proverb

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
--Og Mandino

You are never a loser until you quit trying.
--Mike Ditka

You can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure.
--Unknown

You can't wait on success.
--Alan Jackson

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
--Beverly Sills

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.
--Vince Lombardi

Quotes on Success