Success Quotes

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

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

"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

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

“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

"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

"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

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