Success Quotes and Sayings

Quotes about success and becoming successful


"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."
~Mark Caine

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
~ Christopher Morley

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 P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby


The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ~Irving Berlin


Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
~Earl Wilson


Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
~Jonatan Mårtensson


Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
~Dale Carnegie


There is no success but your own success.
~Terri Guillemets



I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

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


"Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." Aeschylus

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasgow

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
~John Maxwell

"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in." Aeschylus

"Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us." George Allen

"My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women."
Woody Allen



There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
~ Christopher Morley

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

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
~Woody Allen