Success Quotes

"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

"The road to success is always under construction... there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams."

"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

"I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling."

"It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success."

"Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before."

"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."

"The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person."

"Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands."

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

"If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game."

"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil."

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

"The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day."

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."

"I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive."

"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."

"I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us."

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

"As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"I started running because my neighbour, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him. Patrick came from the same village as I do and my mother used to be his teacher. I was so inspired by his success."

"When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts."

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."

"It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be."

"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

"Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years."

"In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success."

"Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command."

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."

"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."

"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

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

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."