Success Quotes

"I never dreamed about success — I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Make something people want includes making a company that people want to work for."

- Sahil Lavingia

"To be successful, one has to be one of three bees – the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in."

- Suzy Kassem

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."

- W. C. Fields

"Winning doesn’t happen in the competition. Winning happens outside and before the competition."

- Rosanna Toivonen

"The backbone of success is hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance."

- Mia Hamm

"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

- Mike Ditka

"What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed."

- Dave Thomas

"The road to success, for 99% of people, isn’t a jump. It’s a steady incline from one successful project to the next."

- Lee Morris

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally.  It comes from what you do consistently."

- Marie Forleo

"You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."

- Michael Dell

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits"

- Brian Tracy

"“The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.”"

- Earl Warren

"It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success."

- George Washington Carver

"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, ‘In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.’” (Proverbs 3:6)"

- George Washington Carver

"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

"I attribute my success to this—I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."

- Charles J. Givens

"Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."

- Edward Carpenter

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

- Andrew Grove

""To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.""

- Reba McEntire

""All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.""

- Mark Twain

"Success is like a wild horse. If you don't know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well."

- Ajith Kumar

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure."

- Masashi Kishimoto

"The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me."

- Denzel Washington

"You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born."

- Myles Munroe

"Sweet dreams, visionary. Remember, every great success starts with a dream."