Success Quotes
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.David McClure Brinkley
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.Author Unknown
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.Confucius
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.Eddie Canto
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.Christopher Lasch
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.Pablo Picasso
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
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.Albert Einstein
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.Anthony Trollope
There are two rules for success: 1 Never tell everything you know.Roger H. Lincoln
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.David Joseph Schwartz
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.Erica Jong
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.Frederick Chiluba
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.Vernon Howard
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
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.Josh Billings
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
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
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.Albert Einstein