Success Quotes

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

R. D. Hitchcock

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

Albert Einstein

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Michael Korda

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

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

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

George Bernard Shaw

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard Milhous Nixon

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Akhenaton

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joyce

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee Williams

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

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

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

Author Unknown

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

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

Mark Twain

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Louise Nevelson

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.

Sister Mary Lauretta

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beeche

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

Mother Theresa

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

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Dr. A. B. Meldrum

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

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

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.

Funmi Wale - Adegbite

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953