Success Quotes

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

~ Rosie O'donnell

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

~ Kalpana Chawla

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

~ Mireille Guiliano

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

~ Barack Obama

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

~ Paul Bryant

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.

~ Marlee Matlin

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.

~ Tony Mccoy

In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'

~ Ashton Eaton

Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own.

~ Renee Ellmers

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

~ Lee Atwater

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

~ Bob Newhart

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

~ Edmund Hillary

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

~ Jimmy Buffett

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

~ François Truffaut

I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.

~ Adam West

I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.

~ Ceelo Green

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

~ Hernan Cortes

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

~ Isoroku Yamamoto

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

~ Mike Pence

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

~ Arlen Specter

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

~ Bill Gates

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

~ C. S. Lewis

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

~ Zig Ziglar

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

~ John Wooden

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

~ Myles Munroe

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

~ Andy Grove

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

~ Henry Rollins

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

~ Thomas J. Watson

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

~ Sumner Redstone

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

~ Conor Mcgregor

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

~ Fidel Castro

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

~ Confucius

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

~ Bill Cosby

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

~ Dale Carnegie