Motivational Quotes on Success by Quotes and Quotes Blog

Motivational Quotes On Success By Quotes And Quotes Blog

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Sting

 “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

― Herbert Bayard Swope 

Motivational quote on success by Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

― Albert Einstein   

 “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

― Herman Melville 

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

― Truman Capote  

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”

― Bette Midler 

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart  

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

― Hayley Williams 

  “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.”

― Leonardo da Vinci 

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche  

“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart 

  “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

― Robert F. Kennedy 

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

  

 “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

― Winston S. Churchill 

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice 

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War 

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”

― J.M. Barrie  

 “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”

― Vince Lombardi 

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”

― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free  

 “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

― George Bernard Shaw 

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”

― Jason Mraz  

 “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”

― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

   “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”

― Dr Roopleen 

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”

― Roy T. Bennett  

“I've had great success being a total idiot. ”

― Jerry Lewis 

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

― Dale Carnegie 

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”

― John Wooden  

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

― Bernard Branson  

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 “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 overcome while trying to succeed.”

― Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

 “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

― Woody Allen 

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”

― Neil deGrasse Tyson 

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

― Joyce Brothers

 “My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free 

“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story  

“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”

― Stephen Richards 

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

― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

  

 “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

― Dale Carnegie 

“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”

― Steven Wright 

    “Fortune sides with him who dares.”

― Virgil 

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

― HEGEL  

“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free  

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably
become as ordinary as they expect you to be.”

― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You  

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”

― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight 

“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy 

  “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

― Flannery O'Connor 

“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability  

“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”

― Dr Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU 

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

― Suzy Kassem  

“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”

― Robert Strauss  

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

― Elbert Hubbard 

“Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability 

“There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.”

― Deepak Chopra 

“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability 

“At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams 

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year 

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.”

― Bobbe Sommer 

       “Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable  


“Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.”
― Stephen Richards 


“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”
― Marianne Williamson 


 “Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
― Henry Ford 

“Success is...
knowing your purpose in life,
growing to reach your maximum potential, and
sowing seeds that benefit others.”
― John C. Maxwell 


“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century 

   “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
― Reba McEntire 


“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
― George S. Patton Jr. 


“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
― Salvador Dali 


“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding 


     

  “Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”
― Douglas Pagels 


“Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.”
― Israelmore Ayivor  

“If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience 

“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”

― Shannon L. Alder  


“The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart 

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

― Niccolo Machiavelli 

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World