Quotes About Success

Success - what a powerful concept! The meaning of success may come in many forms, as it depends on what one searches for in life. However, the best universal definition of success I have come across is: "Success is the completion of anything intended." In other words, success is when you finish what you have planned to do. Of course, this is not always easy. Some people may never complete their goals. Others do it with ease. What helps me continue when things get rough are good, motivational quotes and sayings about success. Somehow, after reading some of the following quotes and sayings about succes, I regain my strenght and resolution to complete what I've started, whatever that may be. Amazing! I hope these quotes will help you in the same way too.

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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." Warren Buffett

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." Friedrich Nietzche

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

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

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

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen

"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" James Allen

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

"Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?" Jean Renoir

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." Frank Lloyd Wright

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." Albert Einstein

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are." Milton Berle

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." Dale Carnegie

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

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." Abraham Lincoln

"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." Tom Peters

"I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through." Edward Rickenbacker

"You always pass failure on the way to success." Mickey Rooney

"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

"The road to success is always under construcion." Arnold Palmer

"There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity." Buck Rodgers

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." Earl Wilson

"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." James Corbett

"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." Thomas J. Watson

"Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward." Bruce Jenner

"Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain

"If you develop the habits of success, you will make success a habit." Michael E. Angier

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they never quit." Conrad Hilton

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." Arthur Brisbane

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." Jim Rohn

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." George S. Patton

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

"Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most." Robert Albert Bloch

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." Irving Berlin

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try." Mother Teresa

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

"Success is 99 per cent failure." Soichiro Honda

"Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success." Jim Backus

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will." Nelson Mandela

"Real success comes in small portions day by day." Denis Waitley

"True success is not necessarily about being the best at all cost. It's about DOING your best at all times. If you do that long enough, who knows, you might just end up being the best." Tope Popoola

"You can have anything you want, if you help enough other people get what they want." Zig Ziglar

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." Titus Livius

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable." Coco Chanel

"No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. Napoleon Hill

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

"Nothing recedes like success." Walter Winchell

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." Jim Rohn

"I don't think I've ever done an adventure where I've succeeded first time. I'm looking forward to getting the job done." Richard Branson

"It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd." Robin Crow

"Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves." Garth Stein

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie

"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do." Wayne Dyer

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." Maya Angelou

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." Thomas Alva Edison

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'" Brian Tracy

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." Abraham Lincoln

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." Colin R. Davis

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." Henry Ford

"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense." Helen Gurley Brown

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." Mark Twain

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." Socrates

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

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." Dale Carnegie

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." Henry Kissinger

"Three keys to success: read, read, read." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the one who will win." Roger Bannister

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year." John Foster Dulles

"Just do what you do best." Red Auerbach

"Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom." General George S. Patton

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

"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake." Alan Greenspan

"Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner." Tim Ferriss

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed'" you find that it simply means to follow through." F. W. Nichol

"The secret of success is consistency of purpose." Benjamin Disraeli

"The one common factor of every successful person I know, and every successful person I know of, is that they are dedicated students of success. They never seem to tire of studying what others have done to achieve." Vic Johnson

"Finding is reserved for those that search." Jim Rohn

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." Bill Cosby

"A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success." Cullen Hightower

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

"There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way." Christopher Morley

"You already possess everything necessary to become great." Native American Crow Proverb

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone." Reba McEntire


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