Success Quotes

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Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
Walt Disney

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
Thomas J. Watson

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
Ross Perot

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.
Laurence Shames

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
Walter Cronkite

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Thomas Edison

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden

One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
Albert Einstein

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no top.
Nancy Barcus

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
Joe Paterno

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard