A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life. – David Burns
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. – Dorthea Brande
Always aim for achievement and forget about success. – Helen Hayes
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. – Kent M. Keith
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. – Helen Keller
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success. – Henry Ford
Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier, certainly no more difficult, than small ideas and small plans. – David Schwartz
Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run, in the long run, I say, success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it. The more one forgets himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence. Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself. – Viktor Frankl
Failure is always a safe, familiar, no-risk refuge, a known experience. It focuses no new of testing responsibilities upon one. Success, on the other hand, is unknown territory and a high-risk business. – Alan Olmstead
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie
God has infinite time to give us. But how did he give it? In one immense tract of lazy millenniums? No. He cut it up into a neat succession of new mornings. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Had I known being successful was going to be this much work, I would’ve just stuck to being a loser. – Hugh Macleod
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does. – Harvey Mackay
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale
I can give you a six-word formula for success. Think things through, then follow through. – Eddie Rickenbacker
I don’t want to pay any dues in life. I want to be a one-in-a-million, overnight success! I want the world handed to me on a silver platter! – Bill Watterson
I have learned that 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 while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. – Frank Lloyd Wright
I think the foremost quality, there’s no success without it, is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there’s no success if you don’t do well what you’re working at. – Malcolm Forbes
I was unsuccessful in business for many years. Now I realize it was mostly the result of being young, stupid, stubborn and naive. At the time, I thought that I was just unlucky. Then one day I got pretty good at stuff. Hurray! People think that things get easy once one becomes successful. For many, it’s ‘careful what you wish for’. If you’re up for it, it’s amazing, if not, every day is a burden. That’s why you gotta follow your passion. Love what you do and your life is a blessing. – Hugh Macleod
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. – George Burns
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
If the success or failure of this planet and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do. How would I be? What would I do? – Buckminster Fuller
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. – Orlando Battista
Learning is critical to your success, but who you learn from makes all the difference in the world! – Kita Forever
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man, he, himself. – Gabriel Heatter
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. – Johnny Carson
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln
Of 100 people who say they want to start a business, 90 won’t lift a finger, 9 will make an effort, perhaps for a few weeks, quitting when fame doesn’t crash through the door. But that 1 person, working late into the night by the warm glow of an old desk lamp, will win. He knows as every successful man and woman knows, results take time. Be patient. – Gary Vaynerchuk
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. – Maxwell Maltz
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. – Arthur Ashe
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. – Pablo Picasso
Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill
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
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. – Anthony Robbins
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today. – Maxwell Maltz
Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there’s more pressure not to lose it. – Seth Godin
Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships – and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen. Seek new ideas and advice. – Ruth Scott
Success doesn’t have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size. – Sarah Breathnach
Success has 100 fathers, but failure is an orphan. – John F. Kennedy
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. – Joyce Brothers
Success is doing what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want. – Tony Robbins
Success is easy. All you have to do is learn how to use your career the same way Hendrix used his guitar. – Hugh Macleod
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. – H. Jackson Brown
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – George Patton
Success is never so interesting as the struggle, not even to the successful. – Willa Cather
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 the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. – Robert J. Collier
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry Thoreau
Success, in many cases, is failure turned inside out. – Mary Kay Ash
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. – Martin Luther King Jr
Success? My nomination for the single most important ingredient is energy well directed. – Louis Lundborg
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events. – Maxwell Maltz
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them. – Steve Ibbotson
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. Don’t get the green disease of envy. Don’t be fooled by success and money. Don’t let anything come between you and your work. – Louise Bourgeois
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. – Thomas Edison
The key to success is simple. Make people dream. – Gerard De Nerval
The key to success is to raise your own energy. When you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill them! – Stuart Wilde
The key to success is understanding the difference between what’s really going on and what we wish/think/hope is going on. – Jack Welch
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 Dulles
The minute you learn how to give is the minute you become successful. – Hugh Macleod
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess Success. That, with the squalid interpretation put on the word success, is our national disease. – William James
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours. – Thomas Edison
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. – Walter Chrysler
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller
The secret to success is no secret. It’s called work your ass off & find a way to add more value to peoples’ lives than anyone else does. – Tony Robbins
The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problems. – T Harv Eker
The usual drawback of success is that it annoys one’s friends so. – P.G. Woodhouse
The vast majority of people have the deeply entrenched conviction that success promotes happiness. But it is not success that promotes happiness. When you genuinely enjoy your life, you are successful in the only real meaning of the term. – Tom Russell
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. – Og Mandino
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. – J. N. Fadenburg
Think in terms of what’s good for the other person and success will seek you out. – Mary Ash
To be successful, invest in what does not change. – Jeff Bezos
To follow, without halt, one aim, there’s the secret of success. – Anna Pavlova
Treat success and failure as the twin impostors they are. – Rudyard Kipling
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
We cannot insure success but we can deserve it. – Joseph Addison
What the path to business success really looks like: Messy, precarious, and riddled with mistakes. – Bill Gates
What you get out of success is what you put into it? Oh, then forget it. – Bill Watterson
When I begin my work in the morning, I expect to have a successful and pleasant day of it. – Booker T. Washington
Without doubt, success brings with it greater opportunities for failure. – Bruce Wilkinson
You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. – Chuck Carlson
You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success. – Chef Jiro Ono