100 SUCCESS QUOTES

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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