Success Quotes
One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.Claude M. Bristol
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide - Awake, persistent, tireless enemy.Frank Shutts
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
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.Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.Unknown
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.Erich Fromm
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Anna Quindlen
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.Arthur Rubinstein
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.Author Unknown
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.Elbert Hubbard
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.Anon.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.Brian Tracy
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.Thomas Wolfe
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.Robert Benchley
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.Mell Lazzarus
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.Napolean Hill
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.Sarah Ban Breathnach
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this dream a great dream.John A. Appleman
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.Henry Ford
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.Michael Korda
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.Arlene Raven
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.Henry David Thoreau
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.Robert J. McKain
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.Robert F. Bennett
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
