Quotes about success
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."— Thomas Edison
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident"— Thomas Edison
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."— Thomas Edison
"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."— Albert Einstein
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."— Colin Powell
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."— Abraham Lincoln
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."— Winston Churchill
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it."— M. Scott Peck
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has."— Margaret Mead
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."— Elbert Hubbard
"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."— Lisa Alther
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."— Edward Everett Hale
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."— Napoleon Hill
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it."— M. Scott Peck
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has."— Margaret Mead
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."— Elbert Hubbard
"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."— Lisa Alther
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."— Edward Everett Hale
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."— Napoleon Hill
"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."— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."— David Rockefeller
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."— Benjamin Disraeli
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."— Winston Churchill
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it."— Richard Bach
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."— Cecil B. DeMille
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."— Christopher Morley
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."— Benjamin Disraeli
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."— Napoleon Hill
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."— Max Planck
"The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life."— Daisaku Ikeda
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."— Tony Robbins
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way."— Christopher Morley
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."— Sigmund Freud
"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
"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."— Walter Cronkite
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."— David Brinkley
"All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream."— John Eliot
"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be."— Lou Holtz
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort."— Epictetus
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."— Marie Curie
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."— Mary Kay Ash
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like."— Napoleon Hill
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."— Napoleon Hill
"By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it."— Nikos Kazantzakis
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."— Vince Lombardi