Success Quotes

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

~ Lance Armstrong

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.

~ Nathan W. Morris

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

~ Denis Waitley

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

~ Mario Andretti

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

~ Criss Jami

If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

~ Joe Namath

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

~ Tim Fargo

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

~ Harper Lee

The roughest roads often lead to the top.

~ Christina Aguilera

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

~ Jean Vanier

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

~ Will Rogers

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

~ Cheryl Strayed

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

~ Neil Gaiman

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

~ James Surowiecki

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.

~ Steve Maraboli

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

~ Terry Pratchett

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.

~ Rodolfo Costa

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

~ Craig Ferguson

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

I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.

~ Carroll Bryant

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

~ Criss Jami

If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

~ Brad Szollose

Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.

~ Rodolfo Costa

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

~ Jim Rohn

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

~ Po Bronson

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.

~ Steve Maraboli

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

~ Lebron James

You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!

~ Steve Maraboli

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.

~ Steve Maraboli

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

~ Will Smith

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

~ Ezra Pound

If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

~ Lorii Myers