Success Quotes

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

~ Coco Chanel

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

~ Bob Dylan

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

~ Robert F. Kennedy

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

~ Orson Scott Card

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

~ Robert Greene

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

~ J.m. Barrie

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

~ Sun Tzu

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

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

~ Francis Chan

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

~ Zig Ziglar

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

~ Dr. Seuss

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

~ John Wooden

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

~ Booker T. Washington

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

~ Robert Greene

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

~ Sigmund Freud

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

~ Dale Carnegie

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

~ Junot Díaz

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

~ Albert Einstein

Fortune sides with him who dares.

~ Virgil

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

~ Sidney Sheldon

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

~ Marianne Williamson

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

~ Amelia Earhart

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

~ Robert Strauss

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

~ Henry Ford

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

~ Suzy Kassem

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

~ Salvador Dalí

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be! - Gol D. Roger

~ Eiichirō Oda

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

~ Bob Dylan

Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

~ Napoleon Hill

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject...Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my d

~ Roland Barthes

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb