Success Quotes
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
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
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.Author Unknown
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
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
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.Albert Schweitze
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.Sidney Greenberg
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
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.Jim Rohn
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.Fred Waggone
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.Henry Ford
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.Og Mandino
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.Henry Ward Beeche
Nothing succeeds like success.Alexandre Dumas
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.Bob Dylan
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
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
People fail forward to success.Mary Kay Ash
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.George Burns
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.Eugene McCarthy
Persistence plus no dignity equals success.Cynthia Wang
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.Smiley Blanton
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.Thomas Wolfe
