Top 650 Success Quotes

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

We just want to win. That’s the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail’ had been a success and launched me as a star.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

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.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.

On or off the field, practice and teamwork are the key to success.

An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company’s success framework.

Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.

The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.

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

Success is often built on the shoulders of failure – from which new configurations emerge.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I’ve really learned to appreciate that.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?’

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It’s just boring old habits.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

When we started making ‘Borgen,’ no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of ‘The Killing’ because it’s basically all about Danish politics.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Under President Trump’s leadership, illegal immigration was the lowest it had been in 17 years. The Trump administration achieved this success because they understood the actual problems and addressed them.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I don’t think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn’t protect it or cherish it.

Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.

I have seen good times and bad times, struggle and success.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

I’m always asked how my husband is feeling about my success with a note of concern. He feels great. It’s not hard to feel good about your spouse making money.

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.

Money does not guarantee success.

It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.

It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

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

Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Nepotism will never give you success, but talent can.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just gonna end up lonely.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

Fame and success are very different things.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn’t, and had no success with it. It’s a practical solution to just be yourself.

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

I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s community.

You weren’t born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success… Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Focus on being balanced – success is balance.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Excess is success.

Success doesn’t mean that you are healthy, success doesn’t mean that you’re happy, success doesn’t mean that you’re rested. Success really doesn’t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.

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

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

You’ve got to work hard for your success and you’ve got to have a steady presence. That’s the secret.

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called ‘Fracture.’ Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn’t a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn’t go my way.

I believe that football can inspire youngsters to find the path of success in life.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure – who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.

The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

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

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey. But you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Success is the sum of details.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well.

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.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Of course, success takes you where your character can’t sustain you.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

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

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Money is not a measure of a man’s character or success in the arena of public service.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.

I don’t believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn’t help me.

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

The road to success runs uphill.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It’s not harmony. It’s when players improve and grow.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that’s success.

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

Success doesn’t make you happy.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Curt Hennig was my buddy, and he had great success with Mr. Perfect.

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

Whenever I’ve had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that’s when you learn.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

We fall forward to succeed.

Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world’s major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.

Success has always been a great liar.

‘No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.’ I’ve made this my motto. I’ve internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn’t depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.

Fortune befriends the bold.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility… in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have… is the ability to take on responsibility.

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.

I think that success is having fun.

Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

There’s really no secret to success. You make your own success.

I was working for a chef a long time ago who told me to not skip steps or be in a hurry. Success in a kitchen is more like a marathon and less like a sprint. Rising up the ranks too quickly isn’t necessarily a good thing. This advice was from a guy who was sorry he had done that and didn’t want me to do the same.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Success begets success. I’ve been offered a lot of movies now that ’30 Rock’ has been successful.

I think success is a relative term. If you’re a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It’s exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

One fails forward toward success.

Personally, I don’t like the term ‘success.’ It’s too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It’s usually someone else’s definition, not yours.

Striving for success is healthy – but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they’re able to bounce back and move forward with ease.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Failure doesn’t scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

Success is doing what you love and loving people while you do it.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I realized that my success comes from doing the things I love most.

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

My story is one of ups and downs. It’s made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.

Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It’s the approval of your peers.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‘If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.’

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Success is like a lightning bolt. It’ll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

Nothing comes easy. Success doesn’t just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.

The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Success is the sweetest revenge.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

There is no success without hardship.

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?

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

What I do know is that with a celebrity’s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ‘story.’

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Success is not only one thing. It’s not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is because of my dad, and the way he raised me and taught me how to have a work ethic.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

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.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability.

Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success – it’s what you do with what you’ve got.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

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

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.

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

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

There’s no right or wrong, success or failure.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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

There’s no success story. Everybody’s got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

You can only get better if you’re prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That’s very important for success.

There is no short-cut to success. Whether you want to be an engineer, a charted accountant or a fashion model you must work hard.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Success and failure is temporary. So don’t let them get to you.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Excuses destroy success every time.

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There’s no such thing as success or failure.

As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I’ve succeeded, if I’m doing something that makes me happy and I’m not lying to anybody.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Success is sweet and treacherous.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities – whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

The secret of success is sincerity.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I’ve been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Success doesn’t happen overnight.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

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.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

I’m not a big fan of fame; I’m a big fan of success.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it’s wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they’re waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you’re in trouble. Just do what you love. That’s all I want to do.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

I’ve had great success being a total idiot.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

If the ‘Post’ can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper’s future success.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

True leaders don’t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.

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

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

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

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn’t need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn’t need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants – his personality is synonymous with success.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining – intentionally hindering a colleague’s success, reputation, or relationships.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members – they’re the criteria of success for us.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

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

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed.

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

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

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.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

No matter how much success you’re having, you can’t continue working together if you can’t communicate.

Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you’re likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Scars are the price you pay for success.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

I’m always asked, ‘What’s the secret to success?’ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

It’s so funny, this thing of ‘overnight success.’ I’ve been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain’s success.

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, ‘It’s already so big – what more can you do?’ And since then, we’ve multiplied that success tenfold.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Success is the child of audacity.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‘Sign.’

Success unshared is failure.

When everything happens to you when you’re so young, you’re very lucky, but by the same token, you’re never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Success is 99 percent failure.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Failure is a better teacher than success. I am what I am today because of failures and successes.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

Applause waits on success.

Speed and adaptability are crucial to success in conflict and can be helped by new technologies.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

I didn’t inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I’m crazy fortunate.

Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others’ perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

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.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The road to success is always under construction… there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams.

Success is survival.

Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.

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

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

To be prepared is half the victory.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.

I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

An investment in housing is an investment in family stability, children’s success, and the economic health of our entire state.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

There’s no abiding success without commitment.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn’t achieved without it.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

It’s important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency’s success.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one’s ability and likelihood for success.

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Failure is a part of success.

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

The best revenge is massive success.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Success doesn’t demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Nothing recedes like success.

We’re only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren’t enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

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

They succeed, because they think they can.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

I don’t think ‘Cocktail’ was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.