Success Quotes

Here are the best success quotes ever spoken or written. Enjoy!

Go for it! You aren’t supposed to be average and ordinary. You’re supposed to make a difference with your life.

-Art Williams

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime.

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time.

–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you do the right things over time, success will be the end result.

–John Dufner

People need fulfillment; they need a cause, a mission of not just enhancing lives, but impacting the world.

–Charleen Tajiri

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort—he never stretches to his full capacity, he never stands up to his full stature.

–Arnold Bennett

If you don't like where you are, change it! You're not a tree."

-Jim Rohn

The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation(Essays: First Series, 1841)

There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.

-Jeff Olson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

-Abraham Lincoln

What you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.

-Jeff Olson

Sometime in your life, you’ve got to stop running. You’ve got to say, “Now, this is it. This is a good opportunity and I’m going to take it all the way. This time, I’m going to stand and fight until I win.”

-Art Williams.

Commit to something bigger than your business.

-Art Williams

You must take chances in order to have great success.

-Art Williams

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

-Dale Carnegie1888-1955, Author and Trainer

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

-Vince Lombardi

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

-Zig Ziglar

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

-Augustine of Hippo

The ultimate “secret to success” is that you can never be defeated if you never stop trying.

-Art Williams

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

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if:(1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action,(3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

-Anthony Robbins

Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

-Hugh Nibley

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

-George Lucas Film Director and Producer

Success Quotes on Faith, Belief and Possibility

–Marianne Moore

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.

-W. Clement Stone

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

-Walt Disney

The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations - not yours

-Cynthia Kersey

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

-Albert Einstein 1879-1955, Physicist

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

-Pearl S. Buck1892-1973, Novelist

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

-Gian-Carlo Menotti

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers…some of us let dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days…to the sunshine and light which always comes…

-Woodrow Wilson

Success Quotes on Planning, Goal Setting and Preparation

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

-J.C. Penney

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

–John Galsworthy

You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”

–George Bernard Shaw

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

-Abraham Lincoln

Make no little plans; they have not magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.

–Daniel Burnham

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

-Henry Ford (1863-1947)

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

–John Sculley, Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple Computer

High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation.

-Jack Kinder

Success Quotes on Fear

-Unknown

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

-Nadia Comanci

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.

-Julia Soul (Actress)

Success Quotes on Leadership

-Art Williams

Leaders find a cause they believe in and commit to it totally.

-Art Williams

Leaders never ask anything of their people that they wouldn’t do themselves.

-Art Williams

Stand for something—and you’ll find that people want to follow you, because you’re the kind of person they’re proud to call their leader.

-Art Williams

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

–Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshal

What’s popular isn’t always right, and what’s right isn’t always what’s popular.

-Unkown

Success Quotes on Action

-Robert Frost

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

-Booker T. Washington

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

-Aristotle

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

-Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Artist

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."

-Maxwell Maltz

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. You can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

-Vince Lombardi

1913-1970, Hall of Fame Football Coach

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

-Thomas Edison

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

-Calvin Coolidge

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing

-Vince Lombardi

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

–Dale Carnegie

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

-Conrad Hilton

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.

-Lloyd Jones

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchill

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-William Jennings Bryan

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

-Peter F. Drucker

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt

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