Quotes On Success

Success (the opposite of failure) is the status of having achieved and accomplished an aim or objective. Being successful means the achievement of desired visions and planned goals. Everyone needs a little push sometimes. Whether you’re starting out on a new career path or need a burst of motivation, these inspiring words will remind you that success is possible. Plus, check out more powerful quotes that will get you in a positive mindset.

Success is never accidental-Jack Dorsey (Twitter)

If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it-Scott Adam

Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years-Bob Brown

The secret of success is constancy of purpose- Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity-Benjamin Disraeli

Forget the past- Nelson Mandela

The true success is the person who invented himself-Al Goldstein

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. —Vaibhav Shah

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat-Nelson Mandela

If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success- Malcolm X

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others- Baltasar

Slow and steady is better than fast and shaky- Maxime Lagacé

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not in what you have, but who you are- Bo Bennett

I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful-Calvin Klein

A minute’s success pays the failure of years- Robert Browning

Failure is success in progress- Albert Einstein

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs- Barack Obama

90% of your plans are going to fail no matter what you do. Get used to it-Mark Manson

No-one knows what he can do until he tries- Publilius Syrus

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

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness- Mother Teresa

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything- Warren Buffett

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself- Leonardo da Vinci

Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones – this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important-Thich Nhat Hanh

The maximum success is reached when you are never busy- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it-W.C. Fields

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.—Anonymous

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.—John Wooden

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.—Anonymous

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. —Jim Rohn

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.—Anonymous

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.—Swami Vivekananda

The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something-Naval Ravikant

I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time-Herbert Bayard Swope

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. —Walt Disney

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. —Chris Grosser

 Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. —Albert Einstein

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”—Eleanor Roosevelt

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. —Thomas A. Edison

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it. —Kim Garst

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. —David Brinkley

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.—Eleanor Roosevelt

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.-Henry Ford

If you’re going through hell keep going. -Winston Churchill

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation-Pearl S. Buck

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals- Paul J. Meyer

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. -Anonymous

My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means- Al Lewis

Success is leaving a good path, or even better, leaving no path at all-Maxime Lagacé

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity-Thomas Wolfe

“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” -Anonymous

My success is not who I am- Judith Guest

Mediocrity always measures success by money- Thibaut

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.-Truman Capote

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried- Stephen McCranie

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it-Criss Jami

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures- Sam Walton (Walmart)

One of the most important key steps to achieve success in life is to know the meaning of success for your personal life. The true meaning of success goes far beyond the common definitions of success, such as having a lot of money, being wealthy, having a lot of tangibles and earned degrees. Quite the opposite: true success in life cannot be measured with the above named factors, but instead with the amount of people that are able to life a better and more advanced life because of what you created. This is the meaning of success.

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