Success Quotes, Sayings about Success


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

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

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.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time - Anthony J. D’Angelo.

Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage - Arie de Gues.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you - Arthur McAuliff.

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.

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

There are no gains without pains - Benjamin Franklin.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock - Benjamin Franklin.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win - Bernadette Devlin.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody - Bill Cosby.

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.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success - Bruce Feirstein.

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

Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre - Chet Atkins.

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

Success has made failures of many men - Cindy Adams.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed - Corita Kent.

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

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her - David Brinkley.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises - Demosthenes.

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

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

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

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen - Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

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

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

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success - Havelock Ellis.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody - Herbert B. Swope.

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

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good - Joe Paterno.

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now - Jonatan Martensson.

I couldn’t wait for success so I went ahead without it - Jonathan Winters.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves - Larry King.

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

There is no success but your own success - Leslie Grimutter.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world - Lily Tomlin.

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed - Lloyd Jones.

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.

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

To succeed, we must first believe that we can - Michael Korda.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no “top” - Nancy Barcus

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all - Peter F. Drucker.

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

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

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can - Richard Bach.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final - Roger Babson.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done - Samuel Smiles.

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.

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

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing - Vince Lombardi.

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

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.

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

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up - Woody Allen.


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