Success quotes
83 quotes. Authors include Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Alfred North Whitehead, Anna Pavlova, Arthur Rubinstein, Barack Obama, Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Franklin, Bruce Lee, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles F. Kettering, Christopher Morley, Colin Powell, Confucius, Daisaku Ikeda, David Brinkley, David McCullough, David Rockefeller, Edward Everett Hale, Elbert Hubbard, Epictetus, George Eliot, Harriet Tubman, Havelock Ellis, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herbert Bayard Swope, Jack Dixon, James A. Yorke.
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“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.”
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“I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.”
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“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
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“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”
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“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”
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“All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.”
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“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
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“Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.”
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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
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“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
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“If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.”
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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
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“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
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“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
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“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
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“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
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“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.”
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“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
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“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
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“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
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“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”
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“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”
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“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
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“Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.”
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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
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“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”
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“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”