Success Quotes

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain? … I'd rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that's just not reality. … I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat exceptfrom within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

If you want to achieve your goals, help others achieve theirs.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

Fear too often spells failure.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

Nothing is won without enthusiasm.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

If you were a man, you'd go into businessfor yourself. I know a fellow who started out last year with just acanoe. Now he's got more women than you can shake a stick at, ifthat's your idea of a good time.

Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.