Top 100 Greatest Success Quotes

#1. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK

Elie Jerome

#2. I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.

Emil Cioran

#3. In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

Stella Oladiran

#4. You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.

Ben E. King

#5. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.

Nigel Cumberland

#6. The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

Paul Newman

#7. The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.

Marie Cornelio

#8. People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

Jenny Shipley

#9. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Kara Goucher

#10. You cannot become the greatest without at least a gr- and a test inside of you

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#11. If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

Loretta Young

#12. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

#13. Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

William Hazlitt

#14. The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#15. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.

Roopleen

#16. The greatest success is how much impact was made

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

Charles Stanley

#18. The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#19. The greatest power in the world is choice.

John Patrick Hickey

#20. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#21. Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.

Steve Maraboli

#22. For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.

Christopher Titus

#23. It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To the crowd, success wears almost the features of true mastery, and the greatest dupe of this counterfeit talent is History.

Victor Hugo

#24. One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Be confident, be bold! These are your life greatest strength for success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Success is the greatest teacher for future success.

Debasish Mridha

#27. The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

Denis Waitley

#28. I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Alvin Adams

#29. The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

William Ritter

#30. The greatest success in life is to feel I'm something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

Dennis Wilson

#31. Self-master is the greatest success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.

Ramananda Prasad

#33. Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

Oprah Winfrey

#34. Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

Criss Jami

#35. The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

Brian Tracy

#36. The greatest risk is not taking any.

Tim Fargo

#37. The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

Nathaniel Branden

#38. The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

David Packard

#39. ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS.

Robert Cheeke

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

Steve Maraboli

#41. The greatest success and satisfaction in life comes from sharing the best of yourself with others.

Sharon Lamhut Willen

#42. The greatest way to ensure your company's failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team; who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.

Steve Maraboli

#43. I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.

Angela Merkel

#44. The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Maria Montessori

#45. Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If I were physically dependent - paralyzed or disabled or limited

Stephen R. Covey

#46. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Charlie Chaplin

#47. One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#48. The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

Judith M Bardwick

#49. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#50. The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You ... Be Free ... Share.

Steve Maraboli

#52. I am absolutely terrified to move ... I truly, truly believe that success lies outside of your comfort zone, and my house has been the greatest comfort zone for me.

Lilly Singh

#53. The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

Richard MacDonald

#54. Don't let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up; don't let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.

Roy Bennett

#55. Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.

Richard Thaler

#56. Being alive and helping others to stay alive is the greatest personal success!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#57. The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.

Steve Maraboli

#58. All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Smiley Blanton

#59. When chasing success; Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it.

Nikki Rowe

#60. Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.

J. J. Watt

#61. The greatest pollution problem is not found in the atmosphere, water, or soil; but in the minds of 90% of the population, which are contaminated with negative thoughts and beliefs.

Maddy Malhotra

#62. Two of the greatest predictors of success are the ability to say hello and the ability to say goodbye.

Robert J. Braathe

#63. Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

David Belasco

#64. It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Francis Ford Coppola

#65. The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

Ogwo David Emenike

#66. The greatest profit, is to make your own gain.

Auliq Ice

#67. When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

Georges Bernanos

#68. I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Charles Dickens

#69. Yes, I believe the greatest blessing any one can have is to be a failure, this is the first step towards the success,

Mary Ann Templeton

#70. The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#71. Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

Marcus Buckingham

#72. What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

Nathan Seiberg

#73. First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Anne Rice

#74. I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

Robert Falcon Scott

#75. The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

Rick Warren

#76. Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

Michael Bloomberg

#77. We mine our greatest value through the process of proactive thinking

Julian Pencilliah

#78. Failure teaches you more in life than success does. Dealing with success is easy; accepting disappointments with equanimity and harnessing the energy of failure to achieve greater heights are the greatest lessons in life,

Indu Bhan

#79. In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be

Todd Stocker

#81. A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

Marvin Sapp

#82. Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve "it", at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.

Mike Michalowicz

#83. I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#84. Fear is the greatest obstacle to any adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#85. Evil's greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator who lavished gifts on the world.

Philip Yancey

#86. Hopefully God will allow me to turn my biggest mistake into my greatest success.

Robert Bernhardt

#87. Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

John Lubbock

#88. Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

T. Harv Eker

#89. Self confidence is greatest tool for success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#90. Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#91. Often what we struggle with becomes the foundation of our greatest success.

James Woosley

#92. One of the greatest skills - and gifts - is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they're the only person in the world.

Rhonda Rhyne

#93. The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#94. We also need to consider letting go of the myth of self-sufficiency. One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone.

Brene Brown

#95. The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are, The second greatest is being happy with what you find.

Auliq Ice

#96. If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

Beck

#97. To be the greatest; great test.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#98. Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

John Owen

#99. This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#100. The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Lord Chesterfield

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