Best Quotes on Success

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

an action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.

The path is difficult to ensure worthiness. The lazy look elsewhere, The persevering find riches.

Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.

A diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in the second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

You can have results or excuses, but not both.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Success is getting what you want... Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

The number one cause of failure is the fear of failure.

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

Failure is the highway to success.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The road to success is always under construction.

The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.

The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

When you view failure as feedback, you get more done. When you view failure as a finality, you get nothing done.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

Often in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.

If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

உளியின் ஓசை அடங்கும்போதுதான் சிலையின் சத்தம் கேட்கும்.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

If you are born, you must achieve something before you die. History must speak of you.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Success comes to those who become success conscious.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude.

You must be willing to do what others won't do, to have what others won't have.

Have a vision, trust yourself, break some rules, ignore the naysayers, don't be afraid to fail.

The deeper the water, the taller the water lily; the greater the effort, the greater the man.

Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy success.

If what you're doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The key to success is failure.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

If you quit once it becomes a habit.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

கஷ்டப்படாம எதுவும் கிடைக்காது. கஷ்டப்படாம கிடைக்கிறது என்னிக்கும் நிலைக்காது.

The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we're not clear about which is the one we care about.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

வெள்ளத் தனைய மலர்நீட்டம் மாந்தர்தம் உள்ளத் தனையது உயர்வு.

Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

Your setback is just a setup for a comeback.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Every defeat, every heartbreak every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

It ain't where you start in life, it's where you end up, and what you did along the way.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

With self-discipline, almost anything is possible.

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.

The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.

Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!

ஊழையும் உப்பக்கம் காண்பர் உலைவின்றித் தாழாது உஞற்று பவர்.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.

You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

If you practiced for the day, then you have won. If you were lazy for the day, then you have lost.

Don't worry about being successful, but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

Success is about creating value.

எண்ணிய எண்ணியாங்கு எய்துப எண்ணியார் திண்ணியர் ஆகப் பெறின்.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

It's necessary to get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dream.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

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

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.

Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

The man who moved the mountain was the one who began carrying away the smallest stones.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.

It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop.

What gets measured gets improved.

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.

Successful people appreciate where they have come from, but they don't let their past set the tone for their future.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

To earn more you must learn more.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results.

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you're not setting big enough goals.

The more people you help become successful the more successful you become.

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Believe you can and you will be halfway there.

Whether you think you can or think you can't – you are right.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others succeed.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

Do something worth remembering.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can't, then, well you can't.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things.

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

When you win, say nothing, when you lose say less.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore.

The future will be shaped by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

If the plan doesn't work, change the plan, but never the goal.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped enough people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I believe that potential is unlimited - success depends on daring to act on dreams.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

There is no value in anything until it is finished.

The way to get discipline is through little disciplines. Get up early. Go work out. Make your bed.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, expect to win.

Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

How to get more opportunity: Create more opportunity for others.

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

Talk does not cook rice.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

If you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your mind.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

The four P's to success are pressure, persistence, perseverance, and prayer.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Failure is acceptable. Not trying is a whole different ball park.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success.

There is no absolute success in the world, only constant progress.

Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest.

Give so much away people insist on paying you.

Successful people are not without problems. They're simply people who've learned to solve their problems.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

Winning isn't always championships.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Failing is another stepping stone to greatness.

Good entrepreneurs don't fail because they stay at it.

A Quitter never wins - and - a Winner never quits.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.