Success Quotes

"Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought."
-Anne Wilson Schaef

"Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success."
-Paul J. Meyer

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

"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
-Fran Lebowitz

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
-Stephen King

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates

"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do..."
-David Joseph Schwartz

"Most couples make the mistake of giving each other the 'remains of the day'—the leftover time after every other relationship and task has been attended to. This is not only backwards, but destructive. Stellar partners give each other prime time and make each other their top priority."
-Rhoberta Shaler, Phd

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."
-Paul J. Meyer

"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."
-Sarah Caldwell

"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying."
-David Viscott

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there."
-Irving Berlin

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."
-Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets."
-Konstantin Stanislavsky

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

"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
-Thomas Wolfe

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
-Cecil B. DeMille

"It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown."
-Zephyr Bloch jorgensen

"Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment."
-Philip Guedalla

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
-Coco Chanel

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
-Paul Sweeney

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."
-Joseph Addison

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
-John Foster Dulles

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
-Bobby Unser

"There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.""
-Carrie Fisher

"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."
-Albert Schweitzer

"The real secret of success is enthusiasm."
-Walter Chrysler

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."
-David Rockefeller