Success Quotes

“There is little success where there is little laughter.” Andrew Carnegie

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” Unknown

“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

“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, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” Aristotle

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.” John Ruskin

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.” Albert Einstein

“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy, except that they are so.” William Ralph Inge

“Success is clearly about more than making money, but it’s also not just about happiness. You can have wealth and pleasure and still feel dissatisfied on many fronts. What, then, is real success and what does it take to achieve it in lasting terms that benefit you and others? How do you prepare your children and your business to succeed on the goals they most deeply value and have a reasonable chance of obtaining?” Nash and Stevenson

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you lived; this is to have succeeded.” Ralf Waldo Emerson.

“That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein

“The great purpose of life is to live it.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our plans miscarry because we have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” Seneca

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” Douglas Adams

“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain

“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” Abraham Lincoln

“Success in management is when those you manage succeed, and the organisation you work for succeeds.” Unknown

“A limit on what you will do puts a limit on what you can do.” Dexter Yager

“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

“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“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

“He who has never made a mistake, never made a discovery.” Samuel Smiles

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose” Bill Gates

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry Thoreau

“It is never too late to be what you might have become.” George Eliot

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t aim for success, if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” David Frost

Perhaps one the most powerful success quotes is also one of the shortest. It’s a great way to leave this article on success quotes:

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” John Ruskin