Success Quotes

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person.  Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires he has already watched and ascertained; and, with those whose peculiarities he has had no opportunity of learning, he should politely inquire how they wish their beverages served, and use his best judgment in endeavoring to fulfill their desires to their entire satisfaction. In this way he will not fail to acquire popularity and success.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

All great achievements require time.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.