Success Quotes

“I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.”

— Alanis Morissette

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”

— James Allen

“Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.”

— Lucy Powell

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Andrew Carnegie

“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”

— Jessamyn West

“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”

— Thornton Wilder

“If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.”

— Mason Cooley

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

“I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.”

— Andy Murray

“People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.”

— Nate Silver

“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.”

— Michelle Obama

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”

— Bo Bennett

“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”

— Jack Welch