Top 10 Best Success Quotes of All Time

topever Top 10 Best Success Quotes of All Time

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the
formula for failure — which is: Try to please everybody.

— Herbert B. Swope

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.

— Unknown wise person

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. 

— Mason Cooley

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

— Anne Sullivan

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
— Donald A. Miller

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: try too hard.

— Malcolm Forbes

One principal reason why people are so often useless is that they
neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their
 attention
among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

— Nathaniel Emmons

Don’t flaunt your success, but don’t apologize for it either.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his
life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

— William James

If your belief system has not molded the life you desire, how you
think will need to change.

— Asha Tyson

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33 Responses to “Top 10 Best Success Quotes of All Time”
  1. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn – Alvin Toffler

  2. Creativity is Humanity’s Best Quality!~CAW

  3. Scott Cofer says:

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

  4. Accept that there is something you don´t know about that can change everything. -Neale Donald Walsch

  5. Ryan Yockey says:

    Keep moving forward.

  6. Jason says:

    ~ Ambrose Redmon
    Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

  7. Niki says:

    There is no such thing as average!

  8. Richard Minh Le says:

    “If you havent been successful yet, it is probably because you havent failed enough. what you need to do fail faster, but not too hardly”.
    Sources: Unknown.

  9. David Rogers says:

    This is my favourite:-

    “Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a courses greater than oneself.” Viktor Frankl

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  11. Jackson B. says:

    Another from Napoleon…

    “Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.”

    It’s directly about “wealth”, not “success”, but the same holds true for both and for many people, they go hand-in-hand.

  12. Okay, Perry!

    It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
    – Napoleon Hill

    Yours
    John W.

  13. adey zelleke says:

    “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” Winston Churchill

    Thank you very much

    @adey77

  14. steve says:

    Hey Perry, nice, like em.

    Here’s one I like…

    “Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they really need is one reason why they can.” -Willis Whitney

  15. If two business partners always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

  16. “We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.” -Ian Percy

    Thanks, Perry! Great way to share.
    @DrivenToExcel

  17. My fave success quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
    “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
    It gets me every time
    Love & best wishes
    Heather x

  18. “Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

    — St. Francis of Assisi

    Love this quote. First heard it from Jeff Herring and have been working to live it every since.

    Great engaging post Perry, thanks!

    @Tina_Williams

  19. Hans Fredrik says:

    “Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Until all are taught”
    - Mark Viktor Hansen

    “Someday this will be true for all of us: Our network will equal our “net worth”"
    - Tim Sanders

  20. Lizette says:

    People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” –Audrey Hepburn

  21. Zara Green says:

    If I’d yielded to critiques reports about me, I would have lived a far less exciting life. Whose reports do you need to defy? –Zara Green

    AMEN! -PB

  22. C.A. Simmons says:

    “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” – Henry Ford

  23. Sheila B says:

    Here’s mine…especially because he always follows it!

    “Consistently & constantly force yourself to focus on the ‘critically’ few proactive activities that produce exponential results” -Yanik Silver

  24. Here are a few that I like:

    “Success usualy comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”
    -Henry Thoreau

    “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there”
    -Lewis Carroll

    “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
    -Niccolo Machiavelli

  25. You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference – to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work. -Werner Erhard

  26. Conor says:

    Until one is committed there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitively commits oneself, the providence moves too. All sort of things occur to help that would never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

    - Goethe

  27. Gina Chen says:

    These are success related, I think. I find them inspiring.

    “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

    “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein.

  28. Kirk Kerber says:

    ” If you don’t learn something new everyday, then you are not paying attention”
    Kirk Kerber

  29. Jeanne says:

    Here’s one I like:

    Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames

  30. Brandon Cox says:

    The difference between mediocrity and excellence is midnight oil, elbow grease, and the power of God. ~ Shelton Smith (not exactly on success, but closely related)

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