Quotes for Success

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

Excuses destroy success every time.

Jon Taffer

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

John C. Maxwell

Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.

Sam Altman

Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.

Charlie Munger

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Tony Robbins

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Samuel Smiles

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure

Napoleon Hill

Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

David Goggins

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Henri Matisse

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Jim Carrey

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Jonas Salk

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Bo Bennett

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Isoroku Yamamoto