Success Quotes
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.Sam Ewig
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.Jan Ehrenwald.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.Otto von Bismarck
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.Sidney Greenberg
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.Bessie A. Stanley
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
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
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother - In - Law.Hubert Humphrey
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.Albert Einstein
The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.Joseph J. Lam
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.Orison Swett Marden
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Unknown
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
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.Josh Billings
Why be a man when you can be a success?Bertolt Brecht
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.Henry David Thoreau
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.Michael J. Gel
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.Henry Kissinge
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
Serious Sincere Systematic Service Surely Secures Supreme Success.Unknown
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
Success is never final.Sir Winston Churchill
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William Feathe
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
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...Jim Rohn
There are no speed limits on the road to success.David W. Johnson
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
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.Paul Sweeney
Success produces success, just as money produces money.Diane Ackerman
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.Philip Caldwell
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
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 to things.Niccolo Machiavelli
