Success Quotes

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Gagehot

"I buy when other people are selling." J. Paul Getty

"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist." J.Paul Getty

"Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character." Vince Gill

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." Jean Giraudoux

"On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long." Goethe

“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.”Evan Esar

“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”Jospeph Addison

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight." Mark Caine

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

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

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."Orison Swett Marden

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Robert Collier

"Success doesn't come to you?you go to it."Marva Collins

"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." Vincent T. Lombardi

“Impatience never commanded success.”Edwin H. Chapin

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.”Henry W. Longfellow

“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”William Shakespeare


“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success."
"Thomas J. Watson

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't.

"I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." John H. Johnson

Unless you change how you are,you will always have what you've got.

"Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life." Laing Burns, Jr.

"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." Dell Crossword

"Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road." Laing Burns, Jr.

"There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit."Laing Burns, Jr.

"Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue;these are the means of success, not caste or family." Mahabharata

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

“The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. “William James, 11 September 1906

“The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus

“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot

“Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. “Garrett Hazel

"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland

If you care at all,you'll get some results.If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." Edward Simmons

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti - race car driver

"My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward." David Thomas

"A stumble may prevent a fall." English Proverb

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

"God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." Swedish Proverb

"No one 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

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. “Tennessee Williams

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

“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. “Christopher Morley

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

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. “Abraham Lincoln

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. “Dale Carnegie


It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom .

"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen." Phillip Adams

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time.That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

"Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations." Charles Francis Adams II

"Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." Aeschylus

"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in." Aeschylus

"Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us." George Allen

"My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women." Woody Allen

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." Woody Allen

"He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end." Henri Fr?d?ric Amiel

"Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of Yale University, Dr. James R. Angell explained: "Grow antennae, not horns." Dr. James Rowland Angell

“Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. “Jonatan MÃ¥rtensson

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

"Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries. Is not the goal but the exercise." Edmund Vance Cooke

"I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." Bill Cosby

"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way?that leads to collective organizational success."
Stephen Covey

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." Quentin Crisp

At the end of each you should play back the tapes of your performance. The result should either applaud youor prod you.

"To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do." Paul Cummings
“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. “Joe Paterno

“If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. “Author Unknown

“Eighty percent of success is showing up. “Woody Allen

“As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. “Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. “M.H. Alderson

"A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead." Anonymous

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

"A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job." Anonymous

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. “Albert Einstein

“How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it. “Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

“The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. “Irving Berlin

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. “Earl Wilson

“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. “Author Unknown

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. “W.C. Fields

“We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. “Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

"Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else." Anonymous

"He who does not tire, tires adversity." Anonymous

The most important question to ask on the job is not "what am I getting?" The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

“I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. “Jonathan Winters

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. “Winston Churchill

“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. “Gene Fowler

"No one can change another person?s beliefs. But you can be accepting of his beliefs and then slowly build an influence for the other person to change himself." Anonymous

“There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." Carrie Fisher

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

"Act as though it is impossible to fail." Anonymous

My goal is to translate response into results.Some teachers teach for others to learn.That's not me.Some teachers teach for others to accomplish.That is me.

"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it."Anonymous
“If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. “Author Unknown

"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view." Anonymous

“Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.”Theodore T. Hunger

“We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.”Cicero

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”Frank Loyd Wright

“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.”Owen Feltham

“Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.”Dennis Waitley

"Success comes before work only in the dictionary." Anonymous

“Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. “A. Branson Alcott

“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.”Aristotle Onassis

The real oppurtunity for success lies within the person and not in the job .

"Success does not come to those who wait . . . and it does not wait for anyone to come to it."Anonymous

“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

"Success is not access to excess." Anonymous

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." E.M. Gray

"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more." Michael Gerber

“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." Anonymous

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. “Author Unknown

“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? “Logan Smith

“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. “Laurence Shames

“The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. “B.C. Forbes
Life is a unique combination of "want to"and"how to"and we need to give equal attention to both.

"Success is still the constant application of the Golden Rule." Anonymous

"Success: willing to do what the average person is not willing to do." Anonymous

"If at first you don?t succeed, think how many people you?ve made happy."H. Duane Black

"The victory o? success is half won when one gains the habit of work."Sarah Knowles Bolton

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."Erma Bombeck

"The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams?come true."Anonymous

"The Lord gives us a plan to follow. It is outlined in His commandments. And all those commandments are designed to build stability within us. We are not to excuse our failures and weaknesses: We are not to say we are made the way we are, And thereby justify our sins. The Lord expects us to rise above our weakness, become strong, and pattern ourselves after Him.Anonymous

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.”Elbert Hubbard

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.”Herbert Bayard Swope
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”Josh Billings

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”Earl of Beaconsfield

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do the things you need to do when you need to them,and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do them!

"An Unfailing Success Plan: At each day?s end write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and then do them." Anonymous

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. “George Smith Patton

“The road to success is wherever people need another road. “Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com

"Success in our calling is the result of a person?s love of and belief in the work he has undertaken. Earnest and conscientious labor often accomplishes more in the end than brilliant genius." Anonymous

"As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall." Anonymous

"Be self-reliant and your success is assured." Anonymous

"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success."Anonymous

"Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success."Anonymous

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

"If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut." Albert Einstein

"The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career."Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives." Albert Einstein

"Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding."Anonymous

"You cannot sit on the road to success for if you do, you will get run over."Anonymous
“There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.”Christopher Morley

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

“Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.”Jeremy Collier

"You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much."Anonymous

"The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success."H.W. Arnold

"Choice, not circumstances, determines your success." Anonymous

"Confidence is the companion of success." Anonymous

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."Arthur Ashe

"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."Lady Nancy Astor

What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."Al Bernstein

"Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man." Frederick Edwin Smith, Lord Birkenhead

"Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods."
Frank E. Brennan

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. “Author Unknown

"Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success. When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a life of all good removed." Anonymous

"So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence." Anonymous

“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. “Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

“Success has made failures of many men.”Cindy Adams

“Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. “Donald A. Miller

"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."Roger Ward Babson

"I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful." Johann Sebastian Bach

"Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best."Bernard Mannes baruch

"If there is any one axiom that I have tried to live up to in trying to become successful in business, it is the fact that I have tried to surround myself with associates that know more about business than I do. This policy has always been very successful and is still working for me."Monte L. Bean

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider ? and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation ? persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."Alexander Graham Bell

"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and?knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" Joachim Du Bellay
"Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided."Warren G. Bennis

"You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30.)"Ezra Taft Benson

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent."Irving Berlin

Motivating gets you going and habit gets you there . Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. “Author Unknown

“Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. “Walter Cronkite

“The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. “Author Unknown

“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. “Elbert Hubbard

Success is the study of the Obvious.Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

"The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit?that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory."Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
"If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised." Anonymous

"If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please." Anonymous

"Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned."Struther Burt

"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul."Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

"In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail." Anonymous

"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final." Anonymous

"Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up." Anonymous

"Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success."Anonymous

"They never fail who die in a great cause."George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Success in business implies optimism, mutual confidence, and fair play. A business man must hold a high opinion of the worth of what he has to sell and he must feel that he is a useful public servant."R.H. Cabell

"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

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many?fathers, failures have none." Philip Caldwell

"The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass." Albert Camus

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them." Albert Camus

You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.

"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." Eddie Cantor

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." Truman Capote

"I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line." Andrew Carnegie

"Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket." Andrew Carnegie

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

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie

"When you have much success, two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got here?namely, by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition." Jack Mack Carter

There are some things you don't have to know how it works.The main thing is that it works.While some people are studying the roots,others are picking the fruit. It just depends which end of this you want to get in on.

"Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." Winston Churchill

"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it." Winston Churchill

Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of oppurtunity for you and countless others.
Zig Ziglar

"There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success."
Winston Churchill

"There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it."
Bourke Cockran

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." Anthony D'Angelo
"History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles." William Danforth

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." Josephus Daniels

Life asks us to make measurable progress in a reasonable time.That's why they make those fourth grade chair so small.

"To enter heaven, a man must take it with him."Anonymous

"Two rules of success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know."Anonymous

"What am I willing to sacrifice for what I want to become?"Anonymous

"I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead." Edgar Degas

"Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue." Demosthenes

"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." Emily Dickinson

"Somehow I can?t believe there are many heights that can?t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C?s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence." Walt Disney

"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."Benjamin Disraeli

"The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,?a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others." Benjamin Disraeli

"The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information."Benjamin Disraeli

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." Benjamin Disraeli

"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens." Benjamin Disraeli

"Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself." W.C. Doane

"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success."Dowden

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

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

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." Euripides

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." Sam Ewing

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements." Benjamin Fairless

Success is not to be pursued;it is to be attracted by the person we become.
Jim Rohn

"Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it." William Feather

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." Eisenhower

"If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-trust is the first secret of success." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." Sherman Finesilver

"Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal." Gustave Flaubert

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." B.C. Forbes

"Failure is success if we learn from it." Malcolm Forbes

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." Henry Ford

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." Benjamin Franklin

"Good is not good where better is expected." Thomas Fuller

“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”Albert Einstein

“The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.”C. V. White

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.”W.C. Fields

"The passing day is prey to error. Time commands success and achievement." Goethe

"Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world." Gotthold

"Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don?t like to do." Albert Gray

"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve." Haldane

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." Alexander Hamilton

"Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory." Orison Sweet Marden

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." Thomas Edison

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!"
Brian Tracy

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems." Mark Victor Hansen

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish."
Brian Tracy

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses. "Jim Rohn

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." John Milton

"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it."
Jim Rohn

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." Ben Stein

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." John D. Rockefeller