Quotes on Success

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

-Earl Nightingale

“Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.”

-Brian Tracy

"The only thing that separates the successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard."
-Helen Gurley Brown (1922-2012) American writer & editor of Cosmopolitan magazine

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

-Winston Churchill

"If you work just for the 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."
-Ray Kroc

"Success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are."

-Bill Shankly

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

-Bill Bradley: American Hall of Fame basketball player and former U.S. Senator

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

-Paramahansa Yogananda

“People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.”

-Alexander Hamilton

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." 

-Maya Angelou

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

-Albert Schweitzer

"What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea."

-Mark Cuban

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

-Bruce Lee

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."

-Denis Waitley

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” 

–Florence Nightingale

“Pursue excellence, ignore success. Success will be a by-product of excellence“

-Deepak Chopra

“If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”

-Deepak Chopra

“The best revenge is massive success.”

-Frank Sinatra

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” 

-Woody Allen

“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” 

–Bob Dylan

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for opportunity when it comes."
-Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British prime minister and novelist

"To a large degree, our success and happiness in life depends on how much people like themselves when they're with us." 

-Joe Caruso

"Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.”

-Jim Rohn: American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker

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

-Albert Einstein

"To be successful, all you have to do is give up everything you know." 

-Asara Lovejoy: Human potential author and coach

"Communication—the human connection—is the key to personal and career success."

-Paul J. Meyer

"If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do."

-Brian Tracy

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits." 

-Brian Tracy

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."

-Denis Waitley

“When I was able to get down the road a ways and look back, I realized success is 90% perseverance. The key is to stay in the game.”

-Trevor Rees-Jones

"Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action."

-Jose Silva: was an American parapsychologist and author

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

-W. Clement Stone

“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.”

-W. Clement Stone

“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?”

-W. Clement Stone

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

-Wayne Dyer