Success Quotations

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

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

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

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

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.