Success Quotes

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

~ Thomas Merton

Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the interesting failure or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve.

~ Julian Fellowes

It's neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God's Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world. We love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one that really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one which we so adamantly try to shut ourselves off from.

~ Criss Jami

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

~ Garth Stein

Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do.

~ Steve Maraboli

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

~ Orrin Woodward

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

~ Johann Sebastian Bach

You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of the world in general, you are given the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. And that is all anyone should ever expect from the Capitalist system. The rest is up to you.It's up to you to educate yourself.It's up to you to learn speaking skills and people skills.It's up to you to try (and usually fail, but to try again) all sorts of ventures.The rest is a combination of hard work, being at the right place ...at the right time...with the right thing...oh yes...and more (never ending) hard work.

~ Gene Simmons

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.

~ A.l. Kennedy

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

~ Steve Maraboli

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

~ Josh Billings

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared.(pg. 59, Racism and the Economy)

~ Wendell Berry

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.

~ Charles F. Glassman

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.

~ Susan Cain

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.

~ Steve Maraboli

Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.

~ Isra

Big things begin with big thinking.

~ Kent Healy

Discovering While Doing Is Natural...But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!

~ Sujit Lalwani

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

~ Derrick A. Bell

When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.

~ Charles Colton

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

~ Robert W. Service

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

~ Bryant Mcgill

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one.

~ Steve Maraboli

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

~ Steve Maraboli

When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.

~ Eloise Ristad

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

~ Biz Stone

Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.

~ Suzy Kassem

If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.

~ Anamika Mishra

The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

~ Epictetus

Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

~ Criss Jami

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

~ Ryan Lilly

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

~ Gloria Steinem

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

~ Tony Evans

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

~ Orison Swett Marden

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

~ Timothy Ferriss

Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter.

~ Toni Sorenson