Success Quotes

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

~ John Wyndham

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

~ Lorii Myers

While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.

~ Steve Maraboli

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

~ Ana Monnar

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

~ Steve Maraboli

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

~ Stella Oladiran

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.

~ Nelson Algren

Victory does not come to cowardsit comes to the brave ones.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.

~ John Patrick Hickey

Life may bring you to your knees pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution!

~ Steve Maraboli

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

~ Ryan Lilly

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

~ Criss Jami

If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.

~ Rob Liano

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

~ Nancy D. Butler

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

~ Confucius

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

~ Criss Jami

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

~ Og Mandino

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

~ Mike Norton

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

~ Michelle Sagara West

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE.

~ Steve Maraboli

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

~ Samael Aun Weor

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

~ Alain De Botton

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

~ Gregg Harris

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.

~ Steve Backley

It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.

~ Solange Nicole

It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.

~ Therone Shellman

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

~ Brian Tracy

hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever

~ Chiranjit Paul

the old maxim... there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

~ William Hazlitt

Destiny, Talent, Calling, purpose. each of us came with our Talents, Purpose and Calling. What you do with them is the summary of your life here on earth.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Dont struggle for salary.. DO struggle for Success..

~ Bhadra

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

~ Jared Diamond