“Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.” ~ Thomas Edison
“The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first” ~ Mark Twain
“You should pursue your passion. If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” ~ Pierre Omidyar
“You have to really believe in what you’re doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you’ll be successful.” ~ Pierre Omidyar
“Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase ‘a self-made man’ is a myth – all along the way we need support.” ~ Issy Sharp
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” ~ Estee Lauder
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.” ~ Henry Heinz
“Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.” ~Denis Waitley
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ~ Dr. Brothers
“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” ~ Dale Carnegie
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” ~V. Lombardi
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” ~ Phillip Adams
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.” ~ Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” ~ Euripides
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist.” ~ J. Paul Getty
“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” ~ Thomas Edison
“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton
“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” ~ E.M. Gray
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” ~ Seneca
“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.” ~ Rosabeth Moss Cantor
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.” ~ Lydia Child
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” ~ David Frost
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” ~ Ross Perot
“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.” ~ Sloan Wilson
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” ~ Bill Gates
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“Success is dependent on effort.” ~ Sophocles
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” ~ Jon Bon Jovi
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.” ~ Earl Nightingale
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” ~ Dale Carnegie
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be” ~ George Sheehan
“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you” ~ Tony Dorsett
“The road to success is always under construction” ~ Lily Tomlin
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success” ~ Napoleon Hill
“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” ~ Anthony Robbins
“The best revenge is massive success.” ~ Frank Sinatra
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.” ~ Pablo Picasso
“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” ~ David Rockefeller
How do I define success? Let me tell you, money’s pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.” ~ Oprah Winfrey