Quotes About Success

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.  ~ Earl Nightingale


Recipe for success, a passion to be the best  ~ Al Copeland


Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.  ~ Francis Bacon


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


Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.  ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca


Success is loving life and daring to live it.  ~ Maya Angelou


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  ~Arnold H. Glasow


Everything bows to success, even grammer.  ~ Victor Hugo


Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.  ~ Bertrand Russell


To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.  ~ Anna Pavlova


Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.  ~ Sydney Smith


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


Eighty percent of success is showing up.  ~ Woody Allen


It is a peaceful thing to be the one succeeding.  ~ Gertrude Stein


I haven`t always done a good job, and I haven`t always been successful - but I know that I have tried.  ~ George Steinbrenner


Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.  ~ Sydney Smith


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


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 is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.  ~ Seneca


Fortune favors the brave.  ~ Terence


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


A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.  ~ Voltaire


To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.  ~ Don Marquis


There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.  ~ Alexander Chase


Without the assistance of the Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.  ~ Abraham Lincoln


Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.  ~ Bob Brown


To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


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


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


You always pass failure on the way to success.  ~ Mickey Rooney


Nothing recedes like success.  ~ Walter Winchell


Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.  ~ Pindar


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


Success has mad failures of many men.  ~ Cindy Adams


There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.  ~ Anita Roddick


Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.  ~ Oscar Wilde


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


Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.  ~ Conrad Hilton


A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.  ~ Albert Schweitzer


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


The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.  ~ Oliver Wedell Holmes, Jr.


The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.  ~ Orison Swett Marden


One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.  ~ James A. Worsham


Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.  ~ Mark Twain


Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.  ~ Danny Thomas


My success was not based so much on any great imtelligence but on great common sense.  ~ Helen Gurley Brown


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