Quotes About Success

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

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?

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.