Success Quotes

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

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

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

Confucius

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

T. T. Munge

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Ford

During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

James Grover Thurbe

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Donald Kendall

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.

Pete Johnson

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Henry Ford

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Robert J. Collie

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.

Josh Traege

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

Samuel Cunningham

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

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

Mark Twain

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Mille

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Joey Adams

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.

Richard M. Devos