Success Quotes

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

~ Zig Ziglar

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

~ Woody Hayes

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

~ Walter Bagehot

Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

~ Bob Beauprez

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

~ Rick Perry

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

~ James Monroe

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

~ Nelson Mandela

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

~ George Washington Carver

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

~ Thomas A. Edison

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

~ Thomas Wolfe

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

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

~ Grace Kelly

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

~ Arthur C. Brooks

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

~ Richard Branson

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

~ Leonard Boswell

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

~ Charles B. Rangel

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

~ Albio Sires

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

~ Alan Autry

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

~ Mark Kennedy

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

~ Timothy Noah

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

~ Euripides

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

~ W. Clement Stone

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

~ Peter Finch

It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

~ Kevin Spacey

For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

~ Michael Azerrad

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.

~ Hassanal Bolkiah

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

~ Mike Ditka

Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billion people don't have to see or hear it. If I've enjoyed the process of creation and I'm at peace, then what happens next is just entertainment. If mass appeal were actually something, Marilyn Monroe wouldn't be dead.

~ Grace Slick

I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.

~ Kenny Marchant

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

~ Mark Twain

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

~ Stephen Hawking

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

~ Julius Erving

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.

~ Booker T. Washington

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

~ Samuel Smiles

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

~ Michael Jordan

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

~ Woody Allen

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

~ Bela Lugosi