Success Quotes

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
– Michael Mandelbaum
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
– Bela Lugosi
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
– Arthur C. Brooks
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
– Anna Neagle
The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
– Rob Brydon
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
– Alice James
The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.
– Julio Iglesias
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.
– Robert Kiyosaki
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
– Tony Dungy
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
– Colin R. Davis
The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
– Naveen Jain
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
– Vince Lombardi
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
– Alan Hansen
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
– Jonathan Swift
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
– Alan Price
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
– Andrew Bernstein
The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
– Ricky Williams
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
– Arthur C. Brooks
The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
– Joan Jett
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
– Edward Everett Hale
The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.
– Criss Angel
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
– Aesop
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
– Brian Tracy
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
– Julius Erving
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
– Neal Boortz
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
– Beth Henley
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
– P. J. O'Rourke
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
– Albert Schweitzer
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
– Zig Ziglar
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
– Michael Faraday
The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.
– Mark Zandi
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
– James D. Watson
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
– Mercy Otis Warren
The best revenge is massive success.
– Frank Sinatra
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
– George Eliot
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
– Millicent Fawcett
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
– James Cash Penney
That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
– Rush Limbaugh
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.
– Casey Kasem
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
– Abraham Lincoln
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
– Mitt Romney
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
– Mark Skousen
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
– Swami Vivekananda
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
– Mikhail Bakunin
Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
– Naveen Jain
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
– Dave Matthews
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
– Soichiro Honda
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
– Sir Walter Scott
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
– William James
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
– Jesse Jackson
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
– George A. Sheehan
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
– Mike Ditka
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.
– Booker T. Washington
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
– Sylvester Stallone
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
– John Wooden
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
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
– Coco Chanel
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
– Sumner Redstone
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
– Condoleezza Rice
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
– Shahrukh Khan
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
– Graham Greene
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
– John Wooden
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
– Kevin Spacey
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
– Johnny Cash
Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.
– Cat Deeley
Success is always less funny than failure.
– Jon Ronson
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
– Arnold Palmer
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
– Kelly LeBrock
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
– Sloan Wilson
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
– Dee Hock
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
– Naveen Jain
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
– Victoria Principal
Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.
– Deepak Chopra
Success can create more madness than happiness.
– Billy Ocean
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
– James Cash Penney
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
– Steven Curtis Chapman
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
– Norah Jones
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
– Andy Grove
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
– Felicity Kendal
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
– Shahrukh Khan
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
– Sting
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
– Dale Dauten
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
– Michael Crawford
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
– William Hurt
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
– Jeremy Irons
So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
– DJ Jazzy Jeff
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
– Gavin DeGraw
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
– Mike Johanns
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
– Brian Ferneyhough
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
– Swami Sivananda
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
– Wayne Gretzky
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
– Ron Jaworski
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
– Chuck Norris
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
– Kenneth L. Pike
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
– Mitt Romney
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
– Sting