Sayings about Success
The key to success isn’t much good until one discovers the right lock to put it in. ~ Chinese Proverb
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs. ~ African Proverb
He who cannot boast cannot succeed. ~ Chinese Proverb
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself. ~ Icelandic Proverb
A child who is to be successful is not reared exclusively on a bed of down. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. ~ English Proverbs
Men learn little from success, but much from failure. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Stupid solutions that succeed are still stupid solutions. ~ Yiddish Proverb
If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. ~ Chinese Proverb
The unscrupulous succeed every time. ~ Japanese Proverbs
It is hasty speed that doesn’t succeed. ~ Dutch Proverbs
He who attempts too much seldom succeeds. ~ Dutch Proverb
Assurance is two-thirds of success. ~ Gaelic Proverb
Who undertakes too much, succeeds but little. ~ Dutch Proverb
Whoever depends on his wife’s earnings will not succeed. ~ Hebrew Proverb
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ~ Traditional Proverb
It is advantageous to follow advice, for you will succeed in life. ~ Philippine Proverb
Success has many friends. ~ Greek Proverb
Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. ~ American Proverb
Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life. ~ Filipino Proverb
If you would succeed, you must not be too good. ~ Italian Proverb
Work is our business; it’s success is God’ s. ~ German Proverb
Success and rest don’t sleep together. ~ Russian Proverb
If you like to have things easy, you’ll have difficulties; if you like problems, you will succeed. ~ Laotian Proverb
Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding. ~ Italian Proverb
The door of success is marked “push” and “pull.” ~ Yiddish Proverb
Self-assurance is two-thirds of success. ~ Gaelic Proverb
Quotations about Success
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind. ~ Theodore Parker
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Success had ruined many a man. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it. ~ Jonathan Winters
Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck. ~ Felix Rohatyn
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. ~ Coco Chanel
We’ll succeed unless we quit. ~ George Walker Bush
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions . ~ Laurence Shames
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. ~ Joan Rivers
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
They must try who would succeed. ~ Theocritus
Success makes some crimes honorable. ~ Seneca
Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year’s nest from which the birds have flown. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
You’re bound to succeed if you have ignorance and confidence. ~ Ken Alstad
The best revenge is massive success. ~ Frank Sinatra
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. ~ Al Capp
Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it. ~ Marva Collins
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. ~ Christopher Morley
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. ~ Henry Ford
Success occurs when your dreams get bigger than your excuses. ~ Author Unknown
Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on. ~ Dave Ramsey
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ~ Joseph Addison
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~ Dale Carnegie
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play. ~ Warren Beatty
Success causes us to be more praised than known. ~ Joseph Roux
Success is a magnet that draws many followers. ~ Edward Counsel
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. ~ M.H. Alderson
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. ~ Bill Gates
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. ~ David G. Myers
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. ~ Napoleon Hill
The certainty of succeeding makes the road easy. ~ Edward Counsel
I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success. ~ Ingrid Bergman
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~ Author Unknown
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ~ Albert Camus
Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies. ~ Ernie J. Zelinski
Success is an easy road (when gained). ~ Edward Counsel
Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise. ~ Author Unknown
Success is buried on the other side of frustration. ~ Anthony Robbins
There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~ Christopher Morley
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. ~ Zig Ziglar
It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is. ~ Donald Trump
Sweat Plus Sacrifice Equals Success. ~ Charles O. Finley
The truth is, everybody I’ve ever met who’s successful is a workaholic. ~ Ice-T
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. ~ Vince Lombardi
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. ~ B.C. Forbes
Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success. ~ Thomas Wilson
Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier. ~ Bruce Springsteen
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. ~ Vanessa Redgrave
If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~ Author unknown
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. ~ Eckhart Tolle
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. ~ Aristotle Onassis
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ~ Anthony Trollope
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ~ Leontyne Price
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Success produces success, just as money produces money. ~ Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
To know how to wait is the great secret of success. ~ Joseph Marie De Maistre
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good. ~ Joe Paterno
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy — it won’t come out while you’re watching. ~ Tennessee Williams
If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment. ~ Author unknown
Success is less about hours of input and more the quality of output. ~ Jon Packer
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day. ~ Honore de Balzac
A minute’s success pays the failure of years. ~ Robert Browning
Nothing succeeds so well as success. ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In success be moderate. ~ Benjamin Franklin
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~ David Brinkley
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~ Joseph Heller
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~ Gene Fowler
God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires us to try. ~ Mother Teresa
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. ~ Mark Twain
Success makes success, as money makes money. ~ Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call “the breaks.” ~ Countee Cullen
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Satchel Paige
Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. ~ Michelle Obama
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable. ~ Fran Lebowitz
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~ Author Unknown
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~ Walter Cronkite
Nothing succeeds success.~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Success never needs an excuse. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
The success of today may be the disaster of tomorrow and of other days to be. The failure of today may be an everlasting success. ~ John Daniel Barry
Success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins that reputation which accuracy had raised. ~ Samuel Johnson
The secret of success is this: There is no secret of success. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. ~ Irving Berlin
Success means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. ~ David Sarnoff
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. ~ Tommy Lasorda
Life lives only in success. ~ Bayard Taylor
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure. ~ Samuel Smiles
Success is the child of Audacity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance. ~ George Washington Goethals
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. ~ Author Unknown
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
What will matter is not your success but your significance…. ~ Michael Josephson
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you’re already a success. ~ Jack Canfield
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
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep. ~ Wilson Mizner
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment. ~ Philip Guedalla
The greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
Any time you see someone more successful than you are … they are doing something you aren’t. ~ Malcolm X
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure. ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
The successful man is one who had the chance and took it. ~ Robert Babson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
Success is a great deodorant. ~ Elizabeth Taylor
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
You can only be successful if you let your mind go beyond the boundaries that other people have set for themselves. ~ Brian Herbert
You can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ~ Napoleon Hill
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ~ Albert Camus
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~ Donald A. Miller
Nothing succeeds like success. ~ Alexandre Dumas pere
Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it’s a way of life. ~ Anthony Robbins
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~ George Smith Patton
Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success. ~ Marquis de Mirabeau
To succeed in life one needs two things — influence and a lucky star. ~ Leonid Andreyev
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The people who succeed the most are the people who have failed the most, because they are people who have tried the most. ~ Author Unknown
Success has made failures of many men. ~ Cindy Adams
Your success and happiness lie in you. . . . Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. ~ Helen Adams Keller
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ~ Al Bernstein
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ~ Author unknown
Success often costs more than it is worth. ~ Edward Wigglesworth
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~ Logan Smith
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~ Author Unknown
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~ Earl Wilson
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~ Elbert Hubbard
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ~ Mark Twain
Success is a hidden jewel, and is found but by a few. ~ Edward Counsel
Great success is a great temptation. ~ Theodore Parker
There are none so low but that they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Success is a fruit of slow growth. ~ Henry Fielding
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it. ~ W.C. Fields
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~ William Feather
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.~ Napoleon Hill
The mind is hopeful; success is in God’s hands. ~ Plautus
What people call success is only preparation for the next failure. ~ August Strindberg
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Take the time to understand what’s behind your success. It’s the best way to ensure it will continue. ~ Stuart R. Levine
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~ David Frost
Success demands singleness of purpose. ~ Vince Lombardi
Success is never assured, but having some challenges is almost always assured. Preparation to deal with those situations can reduce the hurdles and increase the prospects for success. ~ Mark Kaplan
He will succeed; for he believes all he says. ~ Marquis de Mirabeau
The motive of success is not enough. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later. ~ Confucius
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~ Woody Allen
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. ~ Sophocles
If you don’t tell people about your success, they probably won’t know about it. ~ Donald Trump
Failure is success in progress. ~ Author Unknown
If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible. ~ Frank Chapman Sharp
In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure. ~ Confucius
Many a man can make a success of everything but himself. ~ Edgar Guest
All great success is preceded by failure. ~ Brian Tracy
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~ Maya Angelou
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed. ~ Henry Ford
Desperation is the surest road to success. ~ Harry Solomon
There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.” ~ Carrie Fisher
Human success is a quotation from overhead. ~ Charles H. Parkhurst
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure. ~ James Allen
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. ~ Bob Dylan
To freely bloom — that is my definition of success. ~ Gerry Spence
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. ~ Quentin Crisp
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding, and that which is lost by not trying. ~ Francis Bacon
A successful career has been full of blunders. ~ Charles Buxton
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~ Author Unknown
Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. ~ Larry King
Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal. ~ Mike Ditka
Success is 99 percent failure. ~ Soichiro Honda
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