Quotes on Success:
Motivating Yourself Toward a More Abundant Life

Hopefully, these quotes on success will help you to understand that in order to be successful you need motivation, inspiration, and the courage to move forward. But even more importantly, you need to see the "successes" that you already have achieved in the past to spur you on into the future.

I believe that it's very important for all of us to understand that abundance in life comes from many different sources... not just money.

In fact, stop and ask yourself right now - "What makes me feel successful?"

Is it having luxury cars and a huge home to show off? Is it having lots of money in the bank? Is it being able to take extravagant vacations each year? If so, that's wonderful. But how do having all these things affect you emotionally?

For many others, it may be the small things in life that add up to a "lot".

Perhaps it's the beautiful garden in your backyard that you can enjoy each day. Maybe it's your favorite pet that greets you with absolute love when you come home. How about the fun and laughter of great friends and warm family get-togethers? All of these can also be viewed as being "successful" in life, and this is what these quotes on success portray. Again, it comes back to the feelings that affect you and whether you define these events as living a successful life.

There's no other way to say it. Success is a feeling that you have inside - a knowing that the life you're living IS fulfilling and abundant.

So take the time to really define what being successful means to you. Until you do this... how will you know when you achieve it?

The following quotes on success provide some very insightful advice on achieving your dreams. Be sure to also check out our Books of Quotations page for some excellent recommended quote books.

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."

~Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
Sixteenth President of the United States.

"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."

~Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and is considered the father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. Ford revolutionized transportation with his invention of the Model-T automobile introduced on October 1, 1908. Horse-drawn carriages soon became a thing of the past.

"Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction."

"You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created."

"Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation, opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so."

~Wallace Wattles (1860 – 1911)
Wattles was an American author and a pioneer "success writer." Little is known about his private life, but his writing was very popular in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explained how to become wealthy.

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small managable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

~Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Although best known by his pen name of Mark Twain, his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer and is famous for his novels: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

"Anything can be achieved in small deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

~David Lloyd George (1863 – 1945)
1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor was a British statesman who was the first, and only, Welsh Prime Minister that Britain has had, serving throughout the latter half of World War I and the first four years of the subsequent peace. He was also the last Liberal to hold the office.

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let it go."

~Carol Burnett (1933 - )
Burnett is a well-known and popular American Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. The highly acclaimed The Carol Burnett Show (a variety show combining comedy sketches, song, and dance) aired on CBS television in 1967, and had a successful eleven-year run, ending in 1978.

"The extra mile is the stretch of road that is never crowded."

~Unknown

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves."

~Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
Edison was a businessman and a prolific American inventor. Holding 1,093 U.S. patents (along with patents in other countries), he invented many devices during his lifetime. The ones that we are most familiar with, and which he is most famous for, are the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb.

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."

~Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
Lombardi was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the NFL from 1959-67, winning five league championships during his 9 years.

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