Success.

We all want it in some way.

In school or in our careers. In relationships with our children, partner, friends,
someone we just started seeing and with ourselves. With our mental and physical
health.
But how do you find success? And what is success?
This week Id like to get help from the people who walked this earth before us (and
from some who are still here). Id like to share timeless advice that was as helpful
2000 years ago as it is now.
This is 101 thought-provoking, motivating, useful and sometimes funny quotes on
success.
1.

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.
Zig Ziglar
2.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain
3.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson
4.
Success is simple. Do whats right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasgow
5.
Victory is sweetest when youve known defeat.
Malcolm S. Forbes
6.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
7.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are
your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.
You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
8.
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
9.
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to go to
bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer
10.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
11.
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing
it.
Olin Miller
12.
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his
business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith

13.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love
yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
14.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you
have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle
against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
15.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the
same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
16.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
17.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves
much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done
well.
Vincent Van Gogh
18.
Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will
come even more effective action.
Peter Drucker
19.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better
than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
20.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to
work.
Stephen King
21.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who
hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
22.
Dont let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John R. Wooden
23.
Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
24.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm
25.
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow
rather than the problems of yesterday.
Brian Tracy
26.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a
nail.
Abraham Maslow
27.
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something,
perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling
on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
28.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
29.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become
the person you believe you were meant to be.
George Sheehan

30.

Never limit yourself because of others limited imagination; never limit

others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae Jemison
31.
Whenever youre in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make
the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor
is attitude.
William James
32.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
33.
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, that is way
great spiritual giants are produced.
Swami Vivekananda
34.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when
it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
35.
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a
difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you
will succeed.
Ray Goforth
36.
Dont wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
37.
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn
by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
38.
After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: What did I do right? and
What would I do differently?
Brian Tracy
39.
Dont brood. Get on with living and loving. You dont have forever.
Leo Buscaglia
40.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next
moment.
Oprah Winfrey
41.
Lifes real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success
when you gave up.
Unknown
42.
If youre going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
43.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, its always your
choice.
Wayne Dyer
44.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the
environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
45.
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the
next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
46.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Dont
over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can

only be nurtured by genuineness.

Leo F. Buscaglia
47.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Harry F. Banks
48.
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of
educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
49.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Dalai Lama
50.
Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to
it.
Buddha
51.
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
52.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
53.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
54.
Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.
Unknown
55.
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong,
because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with
your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
David M. Burns
56.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
57.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they dont quit.
Conrad Hilton
58.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
59.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
60.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
61.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
62.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
63.
Dont wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will
always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get
started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more

and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen
64.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
65.
If you dont value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time
and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.
Kim Garst
66.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee
67.
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most
people enter a relationship in order to get something: theyre trying to find
someone whos going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a
relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give,
and not a place that you go to take.
Anthony Robbins
68.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be
done at all.
Peter Drucker
69.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
70.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of
value.
Albert Einstein
71.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
72.
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
73.
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
74.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within
you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the
world.
Harriet Tubman
75.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
76.
If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone
elses plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
77.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because
success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy.
Denis Waitley
78.
Dont let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Robert Kiyosaki
79.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you
havent planted.
David Bly
80.
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning
desire to achieve.
Wilfred Peterson

81.

Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never
the private sacrifices to reach them.
Vaibhav Shah
82.
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you dont enjoy getting up
and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or
friends, then the chances are youre not going to be very happy. If someone bases
his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a
flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isnt going to be happy
much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard,
a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
83.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Robert Collier
84.
Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games.
26 times, Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed
over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
85.
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra
86.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking
and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
87.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
88.
Success comes in cans; failure in cants.
Unknown
89.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for
success.
Napoleon Hill
90.
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
Milton Erickson
91.
The question isnt who is going to let me; its who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
92.
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being
work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
93.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, Id spend six hours sharpening my
ax.
Abraham Lincoln
94.
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the
ordinary.
Jim Rohn
95.
The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to
others.
Unknown
96.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts.
Winston Churchill

97.

You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
98.
We become what we think about most of the time, and thats the strangest
secret.
Earl Nightingale
99.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life
that dont really matter.
Francis Chan
100. A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
101.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children to leave the world a better place to know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson