1,154 Quotes Regarding Success


In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

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

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

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

They succeed, because they think they can.
Virgil

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles