Success Quotes

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Geoffrey Cottrell
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell
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
Benjamin disraeli - as a rule, he or she who has the most information...
Samuel smiles - hope is the companion of power, and mother of...
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
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One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide - Awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
Frank Shutts
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
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Robert Benchley
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Watley
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
Sidney Madwed
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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 dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
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!
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Donald Kendall
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unse
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Ian Fleming
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Watkins Harpe
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie A. Stanley
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.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
Mother Theresa
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
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
Marsha Evans
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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
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
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
Robert Collie
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