Success - Quotes & Sayings

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

Peter Finch

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andrew Carnegie

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

R. Madhavan

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

Fidel Castro

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.

Pawan Kalyan

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

Charles B. Rangel

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

Angela Ahrendts

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Robert Redford

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

Dale Carnegie

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.

Joseph Addison

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Tony Robbins

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

Judy Smith

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

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

Gordon Ramsay

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

John Updike

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

Karen Salmansohn

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

Bernie Mac

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.

Al Yankovic

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Charlie Sheen

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

Ben Stein

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.

Gary Ryan Blair

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

Howard Nemerov

Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

Brendon Burchard

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Nargis Fakhri

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

Vince Lombardi

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.

Robert Orben

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Charlie Gonzalez

Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.

Danny K. Davis

Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation.

Pierre Nanterme

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

David LaChapelle

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.

Stephen Hawking

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Johnny Cash

Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.

Goldie Hawn

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

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

George Burns

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

David O. Selznick

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

Peter James

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

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.

Britney Spears

Every day, every one of us sets the stage for our sentiment, our confidence, and our success by getting dressed. When you feel great, when you feel your best, it opens up a world of possibility. Feeling confident and self-assured are important inputs into good days, successful days, and happy days.

Katrina Lake

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Steve Jobs

Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

Dada Vaswani

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

W. C. Fields

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.

Arianna Huffington

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone