Quotations about Success

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

Ray Goforth

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

Booker T. Washington

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Andre Gide

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

Babe Ruth

“Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.”

Brian Tracy

“Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas Edison

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success”

Brian Tracy

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

Helen Keller

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

Unknown

“Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.”

John Maxwell



“Those who say it can't be done are being passed by those doing it.”

Unknown

“Success, real success, in any endeavor demands more from an individual than most people are willing to offer-not more than they are capable of offering.”

James Roche

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

Bill Gates

“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?”

Elbert Hubbard

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

Ovid

“There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.”

Henry Ford

“Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“It's never crowded along the extra mile.”

Wayne Dyer

“A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

William Shedd

“There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.”



“To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”

Michael Korda

“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”

Bunker Hunt

“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”

William Boetcker

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Isaac Newton

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

George Washington Carver

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”

Jean Sibelius

“It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

W. Somerset Maugham

“The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.”


“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.”

Unknown

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

Peter Marshall

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”

Robert H. Schuller

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice your gift.”

Steve Prefontaine

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it.”

Pearl Buck

“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”

William Frederick Halsy, Jr.

“Whatever you do, do well, and may success attend your efforts.”

Unknown

“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”

Rob Gilbert

“Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

Unknown

“The impossible is often the untried.”

Jim Goodwin



“The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.”

Unknown

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”

Phyllis Bottome

“Remove failure as an option.”

Joan Lunden

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Vince Lombardi

“There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.”

Roger H. Lincoln

“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

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

William Feather

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”

Woody Allen

“Success is the proper utilization of failure.”



“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

Albert Einstein

“We should not let success go to our heads, or our failures go to our hearts.”

Unknown

“You never really lose, until you quit trying.”

Unknown

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

Walter Bagehet

“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”

Richard Nixon

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

Robert Francis Kennedy

“Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory or defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.”

Melvin Powers



“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Herman Cain

“There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known. He needs no introduction.”

Unknown

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”

Sir Winston Churchill

“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”

Charles Schwab

“In the end, the size of a person's accomplishment can best be measured by the size of their heart.”

Unknown

“Clear your mind of can't.”

Samuel Johnson