Success Quotes
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.Cato the Elde
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
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
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.Charles M. Schwa
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974
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
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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 A. Appleman
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
One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.Claude M. Bristol
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.Herbert B. Swope
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
The road to success is always under construction.Jim Mille
Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.Funmi Wale - Adegbite
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
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
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
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.Vince Lombardi
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
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
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
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.Sloan Wilson
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
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.Booker T. Washington
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
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
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.Erich Fromm
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
Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.Mother Theresa
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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
