Success Quotes and Sayings

Quotes about Success

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

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Success Quotes

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

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

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

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

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Scheller

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

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

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

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach

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

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

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

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

It is never too late to become who you might have been.
- George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans)

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

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

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

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

Quotes about Success

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

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

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

The success of a project is best predicted by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

Persistence Quotes - Perseverance Quotes

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

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
- Marie Curie

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that
one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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.
- Joseph Addison

I do not think that 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

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
- Walter Elliot

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Hal Borland

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity. At what point have you tried your best, and it's time to do something different? It's a balance - a paradox. If you get in the habit of giving up as soon as something gets difficult, your life won't work, but if you keep tilting at windmills - madly trying the same thing again and again, your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

Bringing a childlike wonder and a beginner's mind to life maximize both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -
but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Success Quotes and Sayings

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses
- George Washington Carver

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor

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

Winners must have two things: definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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