Success Quotes

You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.

~ Steve Maraboli

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

~ Nadine Gordimer

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

~ Nancy Kress

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

~ John Wooden

It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation

~ Spencer Johnson

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

~ Winston S. Churchill

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

~ Mitch Albom

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

~ Steven Moffat

There are many people, particularly in sports, who think that success and excellence are the same thing. They are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control. If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually. People who put excellence in the first place have the patience to end up with success. An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he is threatened by the success of others and he resents real excellence. In contrast, the person that is fascinated by quality is excited when he sees it in others.

~ Joe Paterno

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.

~ Steve Maraboli

At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute themselves for the sake of others is one of the great tragedies of our time. Stop letting others define and set the pace for your life. Get out there and be your best. Do your best. Live your best. Make every day count and you’ll see how exponentially more exciting, thrilling, successful, happy and full your life will be.

~ Steve Maraboli

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

~ Suzy Kassem

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!

~ K.l. Toth

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

~ Arundhati Roy

Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.

~ Steve Maraboli

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

~ Alexandra Ripley

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

~ Albert Camus

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

~ Timothy J. Keller

The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.

~ Steve Maraboli

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

~ Suzy Kassem

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER TO LIE TO YOURSELF.

~ Unknown

I tell you, life is extraordinary. A few years ago I couldn’t write anything or sell anything, I’d passed the age where you know all the returns are in, I’d had my chance and done my best and failed. And how was I to know the miracle waiting to happen round the corner in late middle age? 84, Charing Cross Road was no best seller, you understand; it didn’t make me rich or famous. It just got me hundreds of letters and phone calls from people I never knew existed; it got me wonderful reviews; it restored a self-confidence and self-esteem I’d lost somewhere along the way, God knows how many years ago. It brought me to England. It changed my life.

~ Helene Hanff

The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.

~ Lorii Myers

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.

~ Chris Hardwick

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

~ Tiger Woods

Isana felt her throat tighten. We failed. Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

~ Jim Butcher

How many of us stop short of success on purpose? How many of us sabotage our own happiness because failure, while miserable, is a fear we're familiar with? Success, however, dreams come true, are a whole new kind of terrifying, an entire new species of responsibilities and disillusions, requiring a new way to think, act and become. Why do we REALLY quit? Because it's hopeless? Or because it's possible...

~ Jennifer Delucy

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

~ Lorii Myers

You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success.

~ Chef Jiro

Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.

~ Suzy Kassem

Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.

~ Steve Maraboli

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

~ Edith Wharton

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

~ Ian Fleming

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

~ Lawrence Durrell

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.

~ Charles Luckman

Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.

~ Steve Maraboli