Success Quotes.

A collection of famous success quotes.

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

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher

If you would be successful, first you must walk hand-in-hand and side-by-side with successful people. - Nido Qubein

Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas. - Josh S. Hinds

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. - Zig Ziglar

Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result - Mark Victor Hansen

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. - Walter Cronkite

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. - Bobby Unser

Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many you brought with you. - Wil Rose

Even on the springboard to success, you have to bounce a little. - Zig Ziglar

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration. - Jim Rohn

Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one ever sees or appreciates. - Brian Tracy

Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think. - Albert Bandura

Don't look to become a person of success, look instead to become a person of value. - Albert Einstein

Anytime you see someone more successful that you are, they are doing something that you aren't. - Malcolm X

No matter how hard you work for, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. - Baudjuin

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. - Jim Rohn

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

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems - Mark Victor Hansen

Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. - Jim Rohn

Success is found in much smaller portions than most people realize. A hundredth of a second here or sometime a tenth there can determine the fastest man in the world. - Source Unknown

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. - Denis Waitley

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

There is a direct relationship between the number of different things you attempt and your likelihood for eventual success. - Anthony Robbins

Success is often just around the corner for those who won't quit. - Source unknown

Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased. - Sterling W. Sill

There is no success without hardship. - Sophocles

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of success. - Denis Waitley

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles M Schwab

If you aspire to be the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. - Harry S. Truman

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. - Denis Waitley

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. - Anthony Robbins

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. - G. B. Shaw

Success is easy after you believe. But first, you must believe. - Zig Ziglar

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale

You don't need someone else's permission to become successful. - Dan Kennedy

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. - Mark Twain

The key to success is to determine your goal and then act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorothea Brande

Success is the ability to close the door on your past, regardless of your failures and move ahead. - Bill White

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

Always remember that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol

Doubt, worry and attachment will only interfere with success. - Deepak Chopra

Success - "knowing the right people, being in the right place at the right time, and using the right tools" - Anthony Robbins

Morale and attitude are the fundamental ingredients to success. - Bud Wilkinson

The success of humankind begins with the individual. If everyone understood the principals of personal achievement, who knows what humanity could achieve. - Mark Victor Hansen

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. - Bob Dylan

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. - Zig Ziglar

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available. - Jim Rohn.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success. - Brian Tracy

Success is the ability to close the door on your past, regardless of your failures and move forward. - Bill White

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. - Author Unknown

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on. - Denis Waitley

Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind. - Brian Tracy

The combination of hard work and smart work is the formula for success. - Harvey Mackay

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