Favorite Success Quotes
Ranked by johndilbeck
  1. Opportunity Is Missed by Most People Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks like Work. -- Thomas Edison
  2. It Is Literally True That You Can Succeed Best and Quickest by Helping Others to Succeed. -- Napoleon Hill
  3. You Can't Build a Reputation on What You Are Going to Do. -- Henry Ford
  4. Success Consists of Going from Failure to Failure without Loss of Enthusiasm. -- Winston Churchill
  5. The More I Want to Get Something Done, the Less I Call It Work. -- Richard Bach
  6. Many of Life's Failures Are People Who Did Not Realize How Close They Were to Success When They Gave up. -- Thomas Edison
  7. Act on Your Dream! -- John Dilbeck
  8. Too Many People Overvalue What They Are Not and Undervalue What They Are. -- Malcolm Forbes
  9. Chains of Habit Are Too Light to Be Felt until They Are Too Heavy to Be Broken. -- Warren Buffett
  10. The Only Limit to Our Realization of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts of Today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  11. If You Take Too Long in Deciding What to Do with Your Life, You’ll Find You’ve Done It. -- George B. Shaw
  12. You May Be Disappointed If You Fail, but You Are Doomed If You Don't Try. -- Beverly Sills
  13. One Can Have No Smaller or Greater Mastery Than Mastery of Oneself. -- Leonardo Da Vinci
  14. Work like You Don't Need the Money. Love like You've Never Been Hurt. Dance like Nobody's Watching. -- Satchel Paige
  15. A Man Either Lives Life As It Happens to Him, Meets It Head-On and Licks It, or He Turns His Back on It and Starts to Wither Away. -- Gene Roddenberry
  16. Life Is Either a Daring Adventure or Nothing. -- Helen Keller
  17. Victory Belongs to the Most Persevering. -- Napoleon
  18. It Is a Rough Road That Leads to the Heights of Greatness. -- Seneca
  19. Success Is How High You Bounce When You Hit Bottom. -- General George Patton
  20. A Man Is Not Finished When He Is Defeated. He Is Finished When He Quits. -- Richard Nixon
  21. Sometimes Our Best Is Simply Not Enough.... We Have to Do What Is Required. -- Sir Winston Churchill
  22. Character Cannot Be Developed in Ease and Quiet. Only through Experience of Trial and Suffering Can the Soul Be Strengthened; Vision Cleared; Ambition Inspired, and Success Achieved. -- Helen Keller
  23. What Comes Out of You When You Are Squeezed Is What Is inside You. -- Wayne Dyer
  24. Without a Rich Heart, Wealth Is an Ugly Beggar. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  25. I Count Him Braver Who Overcomes His Desires Than Him Who Overcomes His Enemies, for the Hardest Victory Is Victory over Self. -- Aristotle
  26. Success Is Not Measured by What a Man Accomplishes, but by the Opposition He Has Encountered and the Courage with Which He Has Maintained the Struggle against Overwhelming Odds. -- Charles Lindbergh
  27. Don't Measure Yourself by What You Have Accomplished, but by What You Should Have Accomplished with Your Ability. -- John Wooden
  28. You Must Do the Very Thing You Think You Cannot Do. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  29. Genius Is Seldom Recognized for What It Is: a Great Capacity for Hard Work. -- Henry Ford
  30. Hard Work Spotlights the Character of People: Some Turn up Their Sleeves,Some Turn up Their Noses, an Some Don't Turn up at All. -- Sam Ewig
  31. Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn't Work Hard. -- Tim Notke
  32. Unless You Are Willing to Drench Yourself in Your Work Beyond the Capacity of the Average Man, You Are Just Not Cut Out for Positions at the Top. -- J.C. Penny
  33. Nothing Ever Comes to One That Is Worth Having except As a Result of Hard Work. -- Booker T. Washington
  34. The Toughest Thing about Success Is That You've Got to Keep on Being a Success. Talent Is Only a Starting Point in Business. You've Got to Keep Working That Talent. -- Irving Berlin
  35. Give Me Six Hours to Chop down a Tree and I Will Spend the First Four Sharpening the Axe. -- Abraham Lincoln
  36. I Long to Accomplish a Great and Noble Task, but It Is My Chief Duty to Accomplish Small Tasks As If They Were Great and Noble. -- Helen Keller
  37. No Matter What You've Done for Yourself or for Humanity, If You Can't Look Back on Having Given Love and Attention to Your Own Family, What Have You Really Accomplished? -- Lee Iacocca
  38. The Best Portion of a Good Man's Life: His Little, Nameless, Unremembered Acts of Kindness and Love. -- William Wordsworth
  39. Always Bear in Mind That Your Own Resolution to Success Is More Important Than Any Other One Thing. -- Abraham Lincoln
  40. Talk Does Not Cook Rice. -- Chinese Proverb
  41. The Tragedy in Life Doesn't Lie in Not Reaching Your Goal. the Tragedy Lies in Having No Goal to Reach. -- Benjamin Mays
  42. The Entrepreneur Is Essentially a Visualizer and Actualizer... He Can Visualize Something, and When He Visualizes It He Sees Exactly How to Make It Happen. -- Robert L. Schwartz
  43. The Greatest Glory in Living Lies Not in Never Falling, but in Rising Every Time We Fall. -- Nelson Mandela
  44. The Difference between a Successful Person and Others Is Not a Lack of Strength, Not a Lack of Knowledge, but Rather a Lack of Will. -- Vince Lambardi
  45. Successful and Unsuccessful People Do Not Vary Greatly in Their Abilities. They Vary in Their Desires to Reach Their Potential. -- John Maxwell
  46. If You Have the Will to Win, You Have Achieved Half Your Success; If You Don't, You Have Achieved Half Your Failure. -- David Ambrose
  47. The Best Job Goes to the Person Who Can Get It Done without Passing the Buck or Coming Back with Excuses. -- Napoleon Hill
  48. Nobody Who Ever Gave His Best Regretted It. -- George Halas
  49. The Secret of Success Is to Do the Common Things Uncommonly Well. -- John D. Rockefeller
  50. When We Do the Best That We Can, We Never Know What Miracle Is Wrought in Our Life, or in the Life of Another. -- Helen Keller