Success Quotes

Never start a business just to make money. Start a business to make a difference.

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

Decide. Commit. Succeed.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it. - Robert Brault

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

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach

My success is not who I am.
- Judith Guest

Success is the child of audacity.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
- Estee Lauder

Success is simple. Do what's right the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasow

Success is never accidental.
- Jack Dorsey

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
- Calvin Klein

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

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
- H. W. Arnold

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.
- Owen Feltham

The secret to productive goal setting is establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
- Denis Waitley

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
- Charles Kendall Adams

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
- Dell Crossword

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

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

To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

Clarity equals success.
- Greg McKeown

Success can’t be forced.
- Loretta Young

Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.

Success is leaving a good path, or even better, leaving no path at all.
- Maxime Lagacé

Success and nothing less.

97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.

The sky has never been a limit. We are our own limits.

I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
- Anthony Trollope

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
- Ron White

Always be yourself, because the people that matter doesn’t mind, and the ones that mind don’t matter.

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
- George Carlin

Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Voltaire

Sorry, I can’t go to work tomorrow I fractured my motivation.

Why join the Navy if you can be a pirate?
- Steve Jobs