Success Quotes

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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 Alan Appleman

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Robert Ardrey

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

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

To freely bloom - That is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Baudjuin

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Golda Mei

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The road to success is always under construction.

Jim Mille

I have 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 secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

James Gilmore Backus

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

Maryon Pearson

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

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

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefelle

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

David McClure Brinkley

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Albert Einstein

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.

I Ching

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

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

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

Francis Saint De Sales

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins