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100 SUCCESS QUOTES
FUEL YOUR SUCCESS MINDSET
LUKE PAYTEN
100 SUCCESS QUOTES
by Luke Payten
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“A person who never made a mistake never
tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born physicist
! 3
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm
foundation
with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley (1920-2003) American newscaster
! 4
“Action is the foundational key to all
success.”
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish painter
! 5
“All men seek one goal: success or
happiness. The only way to achieve true
success is to express yourself completely
in service to society. First, have a definite,
clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective.
Second, have the necessary means to
achieve your ends-wisdom, money,
materials and methods. Third, adjust all
your means to that end.”
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) Greek philosopher
! 6
“Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to succeed is more important
than any other.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American president
Letter to Isham Reavis, Nov. 5, 1855
! 7
“Anything in life worth having is worth
working for!”
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) American business
person
! 8
“Always I will take another step. If that is of
no avail I will take another, and yet another.
In truth, one step at a time is not too
difficult. I will persist until I succeed.”
Augustine “Og” Mandino (1923-1996) American
author
The Greatest Salesman In The World, 1968
! 9
“Do not wait; the time will never be "just
right." Start where you stand, and work with
whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as
you go along.”
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American author
Think and Grow Rich, 1938
! 10
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but
make it hot by striking.”
William B. Sprague (1795-1876) American minister
! 11
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than
the excitement of winning.”
Robert Kiyosaki (1947- ) American investor
! 12
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall,
hoping to transform it into a door.”
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) French fashion designer
Quoted in You’ve Got Style: Your Personal Guide for
Relating to Others, 2000
! 13
“Every adversity has the seed of an
equivalent or greater benefit.”
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American author
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, 1960
! 14
“Every day you may make progress. Every
step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch
out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-
ascending, ever-improving path. You know
you will never get to the end of the journey.
But this, so far from discouraging, only adds
to the joy and the glory of the climb.”
Winston Churchill (1874-1956) British Prime Minister
In “Painting as a Pastime,” the Strand Magazine
(December 1921/January 1922)
! 15
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a
fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live
its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born physicist
! 16
“Failure is the condiment that gives success
its flavor.”
Truman Capote (1924-1984) American writer
! 17
“Fortune favors the brave.”
Virgil (70-19 BCE) Latin poet
Aeneid, 29-19 BCE
! 18
“Great things are not done by impulse, but
by a series of small things brought
together”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter
! 19
“Happiness and success come from living in
the present, not from existing in the past.”
Steve Maraboli (1975- ) American Internet radio
commentator
Life, the Truth, and Being Free, 2010
! 20
“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that
you need each and every guy helping each
other and pulling in the same direction to
be successful.”
Wayne Gretzky (1961- ) Canadian coach and hockey
player
! 21
“I do not know anyone who has got to the
top without hard work. That is the recipe. It
will not always get you to the top, but
should get you pretty near.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) British Prime
Minister
! 22
“I do not like to repeat successes, I like to
go on to other things.”
Walt Disney (1901-1966) American animator
! 23
“I feel sorry for the person who can’t get
genuinely excited about his work. Not only
will he never be satisfied, but he will never
achieve anything worthwhile.”
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940) American automotive
executive
! 24
“I felt my energy revive, and said to myself,
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will
take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in
my great discouragement, and I will go on
with my drawing. From that moment
everything has seemed transformed for
me.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter
Letter to Theo, Sept. 24, 1880
! 25
“I have learned that success is to be
measured not so much by the position that
one has reached in life as by the obstacles
which he has overcome while trying to
succeed.”
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American
political leader, educator and author
Up From Slavery, 1901
! 26
“I love those who yearn for the
impossible.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German
writer
Faust, Part 2, 1832
! 27
“I say luck is when an opportunity comes
along and you're prepared for it.”
Denzel Washington (1954- ) American actor, director
and film producer
! 28
“I set another goal … a reasonable,
manageable goal that I could realistically
achieve if I worked hard enough. I
approached everything step by step.”
Michael Jordan (1963- ) American athlete
How to be like Mike, 2005
! 29
“I worked myself up from nothing to a state
of extreme poverty.”
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) American comedian
! 30
“I’m convinced that the real secret of
success is to keep your eye on the road
immediately ahead.”
Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) American broadcast
journalist
! 31
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x
plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born physicist
Quoted in The Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
! 32
“If one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors to
live the life which he has imagined, he will
meet with a success unexpected in
common hours ... In proportion as he
simplifies his life, the laws of the universe
will appear less complex, and solitude will
not be solitude, nor poverty, nor
weakness.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer
and philosopher
Walden, 1854
! 33
“If you believe in yourself and have
dedication and pride — and never quit,
you'll be a winner. The price of victory is
high but so are the rewards.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant (1913-1983) American coach
! 34
“If you don’t build your
dream, someone else will hire you to help
them build theirs.”
Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002) Indian business
person
! 35
“If you think you can do it, you can.”
John Burroughs (1837-1921) American author
! 36
“If you have a success you have it for the
wrong reasons. If you become popular it is
always because of the worst aspects of your
work.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author
Quoted in That Summer in Paris, 1963
! 37
“If you love what you do and are willing to
do what it takes, it's within your reach. And
it'll be worth every minute you spend alone
at night, thinking and thinking about what it
is you want to design or build. It'll be worth
it, I promise.”
Steve Wozniak (1950- ) American computer
engineer, co-founder of Apple Computer
iWoz, 2006
! 38
“If you want to succeed you should strike
out on new paths, rather than travel the
worn paths of accepted success.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) American
industrialist
! 39
“If you're not gonna go all the way, why go
at all?”
Joe Namath (1943- ) American football player
! 40
“I’m convinced that about half of what
separates the successful entrepreneurs from
the non-successful ones is pure
perseverance.”
Steve Jobs (1955-2011) chair and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Smithsonian Institution oral history interview, April 20,
1995
! 41
“It is better to fail in originality, than to
succeed in imitation. He who has never
failed somewhere, that man can not be
great. Failure is the true test of greatness. ”
Herman Melville (1819-1891) American writer
Hawthorne and His Mosses, 1850
! 42
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain
why you didn’t.”
Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) American president
! 43
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with
the questions much longer.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born physicist
! 44
“It’s always easy to blame others. You can
spend your entire life blaming the world,
but your successes or failures are entirely
your own responsibility. You can try to stop
time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.”
Paulo Coelho (1947- ) Brazilian poet
Aleph, 2011
! 45
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more
important to heed the lessons of failure.”
Bill Gates (1955- ) American founder and chair of
Microsoft
! 46
“It was our fault, and our very great fault —
and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure,
but not a single excuse.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British author and poet
The Lesson, 1899-1902
! 47
“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If
you want more luck, take more chances. Be
more active. Show up more often.”
Brian Tracy (1944- ) Canadian author and
motivational speaker
! 48
“I’ve missed more than 9,00 shots in my
career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-
six times I’ve been trusted to take the game
winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over
and over and over again in my life. And that
is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan (1963- ) American athlete
Quoted in Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh,
1998
! 49
“Life is 10 per cent what happens to me
and 90 per cent of how I react to it.”
Charles Swindoll (1934- ) American writer and pastor
! 50
“Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to
be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer and
speaker
! 51
“My advice for young explorers, or anyone,
is dream big and dare to fail. If you don't try
to accomplish your dream, you fail before
you start.”
Col. Norman D. Vaughan (1905-2005) American
explorer
Quoted in National Geographic, April 2005.
! 52
“Never be limited by other people's limited
imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes,
then the possibility won't exist because
you'll have already shut it out...You can hear
other people's wisdom, but you've got to
re-evaluate the world for yourself.”
Mae Jemison (1956- ) American physician and
astronaut
! 53
“No man has a right to expect to succeed
in life unless he understands his business,
and nobody can understand his business
thoroughly unless he learns it by personal
application and experience.”
P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) American showman
! 54
“No matter how many goals you have
achieved, you must set your sights on a
higher one.”
Jessica Savitch (1947-1983) American journalist
! 55
“None of my inventions came by accident. I
see a worthwhile need to be met and I
make trial after trial until it comes. What it
boils down to is one per cent inspiration
and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison (1847-1931) American inventor
Statement from a news conference in 1929
! 56
“Nothing comes easy. Nothing is given to
you. Whatever you do, you've got to work
for it and earn it. Whatever reward you get
you've go to know that you've had your
input into that success. There's no
substitute for hard work. And if you want to
be well known or well liked, you have to put
yourself out for people.”
Jack Charlton (1935- ) British football manager
Reflections on Success, 1997
! 57
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says,
‘I’m possible!’”
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) Belgian-born actress
! 58
“Of course to adhere to standards, to
idealism, to vision in the face of immediate
dangers takes great courage and takes self-
confidence. But we also know that only
those who dare to fail greatly, can ever
achieve greatly.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) American politician
Day of Affirmation Address, Cape Town, South Africa,
June 6, 1966
! 59
“One doesn't discover new lands without
consenting to lose sight, for a very long
time, of the shore.”
André Gide (1869-1951) French author
Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] 1925
(Often misattributed to Christopher Columbus.)
! 60
“Optimism is the faith that leads to
achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer and social
activist
Optimism, 1903
! 61
“People are always blaming circumstances
for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in
this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want, and, if
they can't find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893
! 62
“People become really quite remarkable
when they start thinking that they can do
things. When they believe in themselves
they have the first secret of success.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American
minister
Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each
Day of the Year, 1993
! 63
“People don't understand that when I grew
up, I was never the most talented. I was
never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I
certainly was never the strongest. The only
thing I had was my work ethic, and that's
been what has gotten me this far.”
Tiger Woods (1975- ) American golfer
! 64
“People who succeed have momentum.
The more they succeed, the more they want
to succeed, and the more they find a way to
succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing,
the tendency is to get on a downward spiral
that can even become a self-fulfilling
prophecy.”
Tony Robbins (1960- ) American motivational speaker
and writer
! 65
“People with clear, written goals,
accomplish far more in a shorter period of
time than people without them could ever
imagine.”
Brian Tracy (1944- ) Canadian author and
motivational speaker
! 66
“Persistent people begin their success
where others end in failure.”
Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) American historian
! 67
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be
of value.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born physicist
! 68
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart
people into thinking they can't lose.”
Bill Gates (1955- ) Founder and chair of Microsoft
The Road Ahead, 1995
! 69
“Success is a state of mind. If you want
success, start thinking of yourself as a
success.”
Joyce Brothers (1928- ) American family
psychologist
Quoted in The Pocket Philosopher/ Psychologist,
2004
! 70
“Success is most often achieved by those
who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) French fashion designer
Quoted in Believing in Ourselves, 1992
! 71
“Success is peace of mind attained only
through self-satisfaction and knowing
you’ve made the effort, do the best of what
you’re capable.”
John R. Wooden (1910-2010) American basketball
player and coach
! 72
“Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks
and courage. ”
Charles Luckman (1909-1999) American business
person and architect
! 73
“Success means doing the best we can with
what we have. Success is the doing, not the
getting — in the trying, not the triumph.
Success is a personal standard — reaching
for the highest that is in us — becoming all
that we can be. If we do our best, we are a
success. Success is the maximum utilization
of the ability that you have.”
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (1926-2012) American
author and speaker
! 74
“Success teaches us nothing; only failure
teaches.”
Hyman G. Rickover (1900-1986) Admiral in the U.S.
Navy
U.S. Naval Post Graduate School Address, March 16,
1954
! 75
“Successful people are always looking for
opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful
people are always asking, ‘What's in it for
me’”
Brian Tracy (1944- ) Canadian author and
motivational speaker
! 76
“Take your victories, whatever they may be,
cherish them, use them, but don't settle for
them.”
Mia Hamm (1972- ) American soccer player
! 77
“The biggest challenge after success is
shutting up about it.”
Criss Jami (1987- ) American singer
! 78
“The difference between a successful
person and others is not lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of
will.”
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) American football
player and coach
! 79
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious
the triumph.”
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) English-American activist,
author and revolutionary
The American Crisis, 1776-1783
! 80
“The ladder of success is best climbed by
stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American author
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
! 81
“The most important thing in life is not to
capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do
that. The really important thing is to profit
from your losses. That requires intelligence;
and it makes the difference between a man
of sense and a fool.
William Bolitho (1890-1930) British journalist and
writer
! 82
“The person interested in success has to
learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable
part of the process of getting to the top.”
Joyce Brothers (1928- ) American family
psychologist
Quoted in Business Class : Etiquette Essentials for
Success at Work, 2005
! 83
“The person who makes a success of living
is the one who sees his goal steadily and
aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) American film director
! 84
“The really essential factors of success in
any undertaking are money and
opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can
make the first can make the second.”
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) British writer
Whose Body?, 1923
! 85
“The road to success is dotted with many
tempting parking spaces.”
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
! 86
“The secret of success is constancy to
purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister
Speech at banquet of the National Union of
Conservative and Constitutional Associations,
London, June 24, 1872
! 87
“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.”
Robert Kiyosaki (1947- ) American investor
! 88
“The successful man is the one who had the
chance and took it.”
Roger Babson (1875-1967) American entrepreneur
! 89
“There are no environments where you're
only going to win, because life just isn't like
that.”
Bobby Orr (1948- ) Canadian hockey player
! 90
“Too many people go through life waiting
for things to happen instead of making
them happen!”
Sasha Azevedo (1978- ) American actress, athlete
and model
! 91
“Unless you're willing to have a go, fail
miserably, and have another go, success
won't happen.”
Phillip Adams (1939- ) Australian writer
! 92
“What I have achieved by industry and
practice, anyone else with tolerable natural
gift and ability can also achieve.”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) German
composer
! 93
“What I learned at a very early age was that
I was responsible for my life. And as I
became more spiritually conscious, I
learned that we all are responsible for
ourselves, that you create your own reality
by the way you think and therefore act. You
cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your
circumstances, because you are not your
circumstances. You are your possibilities. If
you know that, you can do anything.”
Oprah Winfrey (1945- ) American talk show host
O Magazine, January 2007
! 94
“What’s money? A man is a success if he
gets up in the morning and goes to bed at
night and in between does what he wants
to do.”
Bob Dylan (1941- ) American musician
! 95
“When I dare to be powerful – to use my
strength in the service of my vision, then it
becomes less and less important whether I
am afraid.”
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) American writer and
activist
The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, 1997
! 96
“While intent is the seed of manifestation,
action is the water that nourishes the seed.
Your actions must reflect your goals in order
to achieve true success.”
Steve Maraboli (1975- ) American Internet radio
commentator
Life, the Truth, and Being Free, 2010
! 97
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and
can accomplish much, and what is done in
love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter
! 98
“With faith, discipline and selfless devotion
to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that
you cannot achieve.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) Pakistan's first
Governor-General
! 99
“You cannot be anything if you want to be
everything.”
Solomon Schechter (1847-1915) Moldovian-born
Romanian rabbi
! 100
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.”
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904-1991)
American writer and cartoonist
Oh, the Places You'll Go!, 1990
! 101
“You must take personal responsibility. You
cannot change the circumstances, the
seasons, or the wind, but you can change
yourself. That is something you have charge
of.”
Jim Rohn (1930-2009) American entrepreneur
! 102
“Your success and happiness are forgiven
you only if you generously consent to share
them. But to be happy it is essential not to
be too concerned with others.
Consequently, there is no escape. Happy
and judged, or absolved and wretched.”
Albert Camus (1913-1960) French author
The Fall, 1956
! 103