Quotes about success used in the 'Strategies for Success" Leadership Curriculum

A minute of success pays for years of failure.  Robert Browning

A positive mental attitude goes hand-in-hand with success in every area of your life.

A strong positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.  Dr. Joyce Brothers

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.   Abraham Lincoln

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantee of success.  This is the mark of personal greatness.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.  Woody Allen

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.  Coleman Cox

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.  E. W. Howe

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success.  You learn to succeed by failing.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.   Truman Capote

Fall in love with what you are going to do for a living.  To be able to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day is beyond words.  I'd rather be a failure in something I love than be successful in something I hate.  George Burns

God gave us two ends.  One to sit on and one to think with.  Success depends on which one you use; heads, you win - tails, you lose.  Anonymous

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.  We get very little wisdom from success, you know.  William Saroyan

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.  Bill Cosby

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.  Brian Tracy

Imagine that you are already the very best in your field; how would you behave differently?  The fear of failure is the greatest single obstacle to success in adult life.

In any project, the important factor is your belief. Without belief there can be no successful outcome.  William James

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.  Eddie Cantor

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college.  They attended the 'school of life' instead.

Most people achieved their successes one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.

Nature is neutral; if you do the same things that other successful people have done, you will inevitably enjoy the same success they have.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not. Nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not.  Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not.  The world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference.

One of the secrets of success is blaming no one when things go wrong but doing whatever you can to improve matters.”

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. – Harvey Mackay

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

Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.  Robert Half

Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.  Terry Litwiller

Success comes when you do what you love to do and commit to being the best in your field.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.  Mamie McCullough

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.  Oliver Goldsmith

Success is a numbers game; there is a direction relationship between the number of things you try and your probability of ultimately succeeding.

Success is dependent on the glands - sweat glands.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.  Hoping is active and wishing is passive.  Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.  Wishing means just sitting there, waiting for a miracle to happen out of the blue.  Bernie S. Siegel, MD

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.  Fred Shero

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.  Marianne Williamson

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.  William Feather

Success…seems to be connected with action.  Successful people keep moving.  They make mistakes, but they don't quit.  Conrad Hilton

Successful people are very clear about who they are and what they want.

Successful people do not always make the right decisions but they make their decisions right.

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing and utilizing the talents of others.

The disease of excusitis is invariably fatal to success.

The elevator to success is out of order.  You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.

The elevator to success is out of order.  You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.  Joe Girard

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time."

The great secret of success is that there are no secrets of success; there are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.  Brian Tracy

The key to success is to decide what’s most important to you and then take massive action each day to make it better, even when it doesn’t look as if it’s working.”

The key to success?  Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.  Arnold Schwarzenegger

The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people.  Theodore Roosevelt

The people you choose to associate with will determine your success as much as any other factor.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure

The secret of success is being grateful for what you have, however little, and resenting life for what it hasn’t given you.”

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

The successful family has Work as the father and Integrity as the mother.  If you can get along with the parents you won't have any trouble with the rest of the family

The successful person is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability.  The failure is poor, because only 5% of his natural talents have been utilized.  Charles E. Popplestone

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now.  I might as well take a nap."  Carrie Fisher

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - inscription on Machiavelli's tomb

Think continually in terms of the rewards of success rather than the penalties of failure.

Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don't will find an excuse.  Leo Aguila

To be successful, do what other successful people have done and keep doing it until you get the same results.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us.  But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens.  Success or failure depends on your attitude.  Alfred A Montapert

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

You learn from successful failures.

Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what is expected of you.

A minute of success pays for years of failure.  Robert Browning

A positive mental attitude goes hand-in-hand with success in every area of your life