Success Quotes

Success is to be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable

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

There are defeats more triumphant than victories

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time

Nothing will work unless you do

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse

Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome

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

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed

Success demands singleness of purpose

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

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy — it won’t come out while you’re watching

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value

Success is less about what you gain in life and more about what you inspire others to do

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing

Become who you are

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money

Action is the foundational key to all success

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it

The best way out is always through

Courage is grace under pressure

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals

The secret to success is constancy to purpose

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour

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

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

The best revenge is massive success

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work

He who is brave is free

One cannot step twice into the same river

Success is buried on the other side of frustration

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will

The heights of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you

Fortune favors the prepared mind

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality