Success Quotes

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

~ Barbara Walters

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

~ Abu Bakar Bashir

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

~ Trevor Phillips

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

~ Ray William Johnson

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

~ Ray Kroc

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

~ W. Clement Stone

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

~ Shirley Bassey

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

~ Chris Hadfield

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

~ Joyce Brothers

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

~ Dale Turner

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

~ John Wooden

The best revenge is massive success.

~ Frank Sinatra

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

~ Winston Churchill

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

~ John Wooden

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

~ Edward Everett Hale

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

~ Ayn Rand

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

~ John Wooden

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

~ Tony Dungy

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

~ Godfrey Winn

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

~ James Allen

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

~ Zig Ziglar

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.

~ Richard Grasso

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

~ Gary Cherone

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

~ Mike Ditka

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

~ Les Brown

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

~ Henri Nouwen

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

~ Gabriel Heatter

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

~ Fredric Jameson

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

~ Jack Canfield

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

~ Julian Baggini

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

~ Rahul Dravid

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

~ Robert Collier

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

~ Henry Kissinger

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

~ Condoleezza Rice

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

~ Jean Cocteau