Top 575 Success Quotes

In this post, you will find great Success Quotes from famous people, such as John C. Maxwell, Swami Sivananda, Michael Douglas, Jonathan Winters, Audrey Hepburn. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of l

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.
Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.
Lindsey Wixson
My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.
Success – it’s what you do with what you’ve got.
Woody Hayes
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most r

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Maxwell Maltz
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Success is dependent on effort.
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
Companies are communities. There’s a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.
Henry Mintzberg
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
I haven‘t had a successful life; and now that God has blessed me with some success, I’m doing my best to be responsible with that success.
Scott Cawthon
Mentality is where the success is. I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way.
Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
To follow, without halt, one aim: that’s the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapiers
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Robert W. Service
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Mark Warner
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Joshua Waitzkin
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

Success doesn’t come overnight, especially for women.
A lot of people think the path to success is a straight line, but it’s not. It has got many turns and curves, and you just got to go with the ebbs and flows of it all.
Success begets success. I’ve been offered a lot of movies now that ’30 Rock’ has been successful.
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.
Lucy Carless
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
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Charlotte Whitton
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
David O. Selznick
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
Laurence D. Fink
The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
T. Harv Eker
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Jim Dale
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
I thank every bully I ever had because that’s the only reason I’m here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me – again, if I had any success whatsoever, it’s because these people made fun of me.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Godfrey Winn
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
I have had all of the disadvantages required for succes

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
An investment in housing is an investment in family stability, children’s success, and the economic health of our entire state.
Money does not guarantee success.
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.
Marc Anthony
To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
David Joseph Schwartz
The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It’s not harmony. It’s when players improve and grow.
Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.
Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one’s children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Bernard Law Montgomery
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Success doesn’t make you happy.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn’t, and had no success with it. It’s a practical solution to just be yourself.
Be careful of success; it has a dark side.
Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.
The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a

We just want to win. That’s the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
They succeed, because they think they can.
Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Jeff Rich
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
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.
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
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.
Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
I don’t really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect – and it seems I have – then that is what spells success to me.
Jayne Mansfield
I believe that football can inspire youngsters to find the path of success in life.
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Major Taylor
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
Madam C. J. Walker
We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible prep

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
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.
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
Bobby Davro
The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.
Larry McMurtry
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max Planck
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Herbert Samuel
My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.
Success is the sum of small effortsrepeated day in and day out.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.
Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill Shankly
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.
Childe Hassam
Failure doesn’t scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Winning isn’t everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Henry Hazlitt
The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
The grass is always greener on the other side – until you get there and see it’s AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy. So, don’t go judging a person’s life by the cover.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
Success is not a function of the size of your title but

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
Success unshared is failure.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Success is dependent upon the glandssweat glands.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George A. Sheehan
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
Under President Trump‘s leadership, illegal immigration was the lowest it had been in 17 years. The Trump administration achieved this success because they understood the actual problems and addressed them.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.
There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability.
True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane’s attention, to very little success.
There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn’t achieved without it.
She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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.
Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There’s no assured success. There’s no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team’s success it’s always a successful time.
I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and suppo

I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.
Nothing comes easy. Success doesn’t just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality‘ is the key to success.
Failure is a part of success.
Every step, every bit of success, it’s gotta be earned.
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal‘ person.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
Shiv Khera
Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.
Access to capital is critical for small business succes

Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
To work for the team and for the success of the team. That is more important than one ego.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
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.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
It’s so funny, this thing of ‘overnight success.’ I’ve been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.
Hassanal Bolkiah
There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
Kenneth Clark
I think success is what you make of it – of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda
What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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.
It’s not enough that I should succeed – others should fail.
David Merrick
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
One fails forward toward success.
Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world’s major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will sa

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else‘s success.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
Success is not only one thing. It’s not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
Malik Bendjelloul
Success is the sweetest revenge.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
I’ve had great success being a total idiot.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
What’s really cool about our family is that we don’t hold grudges, and I think that is what’s been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we’re right or wrong, we’ll go and apologize. That’s just the way we are.
Selena
Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.
The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can’t be your parent’s definition, the media‘s definition, or your neighbor‘s definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.
Work on your talent and success is bound to follow.
Success doesn’t happen overnight.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
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.
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.
The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your s

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Success has always been a great liar.
People fall forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Excess is success.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
What I do know is that with a celebrity‘s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ‘story.’
Success is based on your perspective.
Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture – a culture that teaches girls math isn’t cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas J. Watson
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.
Thomas J. Stanley
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
When everything happens to you when you’re so young, you’re very lucky, but by the same token, you’re never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent‘s pressure, and the temporary failures.
I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn’t care as much about success and achievement.
Maryam Mirzakhani
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
Dorothea Brande
Flags are about proclaiming power… that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
There’s no success story. Everybody’s got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day‘s insolence.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
Cyrus McCormick
Success is never final, but failure can be.
I don’t believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn’t help me.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
Robert Foster Bennett
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
You can’t kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it’s about how many peoples’ lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
I don’t think ‘Cocktail‘ was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
To be prepared is half the victory.
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow
It's a common misconception that money is every entrepr

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s community.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
When someone asks, ‘Does success make you into a monster?’ I always say, ‘No, it enables you to be a monster.’
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.
I’m always asked how my husband is feeling about my success with a note of concern. He feels great. It’s not hard to feel good about your spouse making money.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coachesambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
Once you get a taste of success, it’s a hard thing to turn down.
I realized that my success comes from doing the things I love most.
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn’t protect it or cherish it.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’
Joey Adams
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser
Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
David O. McKay
One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.
Joshua Waitzkin
Nothing succeeds like success.

Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that’s exactly what I’ve done. I’ve enjoyed every moment.
Success is the child of audacity.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.
Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Personality is the most important thing to an actress‘s success.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Lillian Hellman
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price
Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
Focus on being balanced – success is balance.
Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
Jerry Gillies
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
There is no substitute for victory.
It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity i

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
Omar Epps
My story is one of ups and downs. It’s made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.
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.
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
Harvey S. Firestone
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen, Sr.
Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just gonna end up lonely.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
The road to success is always under construction.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
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.
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
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.
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse
I think that success is having fun.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey. But you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
The best revenge in the world is success.
Suge Knight
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without whic

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
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.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
Erin Cummings
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.
Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
‘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.
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.
An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company‘s success framework.
Success doesn’t mean that you are healthy, success doesn’t mean that you’re happy, success doesn’t mean that you’re rested. Success really doesn’t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
My success, literally, is your success figuratively.
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
It’s important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency’s success.
Brian Armstrong
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we’d all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.
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.
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.
Scars are the price you pay for success.
Much effort, much prosperity.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
We’re only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren’t enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
Bill Owens
As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
It’s about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don’t matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn’t matter.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something.
Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I’ve made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There’s nothing that I would re-do. I’ve always done what I felt was right.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.
I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
Henry J. Heinz
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley
The best revenge is massive success.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
On or off the field, practice and teamwork are the key to success.
It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
I’ve been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day – and I truly believe this – it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don’t bring happiness, ultimately.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
Jules Renard
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Arthur Helps
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
The secret of success is sincerity.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities – whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.
Roger Penske
Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There’s no such thing as success or failure.
There’s no abiding success without commitment.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent underminingintentionally hindering a colleague’s success, reputation, or relationships.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
Alex Noble