Success Quotes

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Alexander Graham Bell

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Tom Peters

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Cybill Shepherd

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

W. Somerset Maugham

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Shirley Jones

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

Paul Simon

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

Ricky Williams

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Linda Evans

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Nate Silver

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

Vicente Fox

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Hakeem Olajuwon

You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.

Steve Maraboli