Success Quotes
Browse our collection of motivational quotes from famous authors
"Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours."
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success, of any kind, as perseverance. It overcomes almost everything."
"People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people."
"Winners forget they're in a race, they just love to run."
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
"Anyone with a new idea is a crank... until the idea succeeds."
"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
"I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
"If you're more interested in what you have achieved, or what you're financial position enables you to do than that thing that got those things, you're screwed."
"Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
"A man only lives once and the best strategy is always to make most of it. Success is not the only reason for existence."
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."
"Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."
"I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age."
"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
"I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age."
"In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked."
"Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means."
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."
"Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone."
"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'"
"I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation."
"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?"