Top 100 Success As Quotes

#1. As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibility in their appearance, but with little promise of strength or the quality that makes success.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Robin Hobb

#4. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life.

Paul O'Brien

#5. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#7. You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other person on earth.

Hal Elrod

#8. Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

Agona Apell

#9. Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.

Andreas Feininger

#10. It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Tom T. Hall

#11. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.

Sharon Weil

#12. There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

Questlove

#13. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!

George M. Gilbert

#14. Accept obstacles as a strength building exercise on the way to success.

Debasish Mridha

#15. We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall
but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

John Wyndham

#16. I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

John Wayne

#17. Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Isaac Asimov

#19. Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

#20. Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

Benjamin Carson

#21. I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

Jan Brett

#22. When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Kiana Tom

#23. Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

Abebe Bikila

#24. The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Roy Wilkins

#25. The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

Benjamin Franklin

#26. As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Joseph Prince

#27. As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

Mark Dever

#28. I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

George W. Bush

#29. As parents, the most important thing we can do
is read to our children early and often. Reading
is the path to success in school and life. When
children learn to love books, they learn to love
learning.

Laura Bush

#30. A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

Charles Duhigg

#31. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Ada Leverson

#32. Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope.

Peter S. Fogg

#33. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

#34. I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.

Frank Harris

#35. 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

#36. Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#37. Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

Simon Kuznets

#38. Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#39. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.

Dale Ludwig

#40. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.

Israelmore Ayivor

#41. It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

Christina Hendricks

#42. When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#43. The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it.

Eyden I.

#44. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

#45. People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Bayard Taylor

#46. That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!

Eric Thomas

#47. New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.

Auliq Ice

#48. For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles ...

Errico Malatesta

#49. What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

Emma Goldman

#50. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

Jon Gordon

#51. The evidence is clear: If you want to change a habit, you must find an alternative routine, and your odds of success go up dramatically when you commit to changing as part of a group. Belief

Charles Duhigg

#52. You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.

Dave Barry

#53. From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

Jimmy Reid

#54. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.

Jane Austen

#55. Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.

Karen Abbott

#56. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

Chaka Khan

#57. Size alone is not a key to success, as we have seen recently.

Norbert Reithofer

#58. Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy ... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.

Steve Maraboli

#59. Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Jim Rohn

#60. You always knew that one day you would stand up for yourself ... That one day you would raise the standard of your life ... That one day would say to yourself, "Enough with this bullshit" ... You might as well make today that day.

Steve Maraboli

#61. Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

Walter Russell

#62. Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

Joanie Connell

#63. Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

Wallace Stevens

#64. Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#65. From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.

Martin Gardner

#67. Success in such a war as this comes only through men sewn to a single purpose, funnelled to a single spear thrust rather than a thousand needle-pricks.

Madeline Miller

#68. It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.

David Ogilvy

#69. I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

Valeria Golino

#70. The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

Paul Hogan

#71. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

#72. There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

Jocelyn Murray

#73. The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set ... I live in a complete state of grace.

Peter Weller

#74. Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

Jerry I. Porras

#75. As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.

Louis Tice

#76. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

#77. Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Laurence Shames

#78. What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#79. Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Terry Pratchett

#80. The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

Tiger Woods

#81. There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Marcus Garvey

#82. It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

Steve James

#83. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

George M. Gilbert

#84. Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

Ali Babacan

#85. We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Orison Swett Marden

#86. I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

Ron Jaworski

#87. I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

Helmut Newton

#88. Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Archibald Marwizi

#89. I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

Peter Biskind

#90. To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

Stan Lee

#91. Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

Winston Churchill

#92. I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us.

Chris Matakas

#93. I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

Seann William Scott

#94. It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done.

Katie Couric

#95. As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.

Robert D. Maurer

#96. Sometimes success is disguised as hard work.

S. Truett Cathy

#97. The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Denis Waitley

#98. I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

Buddy Ebsen

#99. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Oscar Wilde

#100. When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Socrates

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