Success Quotes
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.Donald Kendall
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.Ethel Barrymore
Persistence plus no dignity equals success.Cynthia Wang
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.Helen Hayes
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Success is dependent upon the glands - - Sweat glands.Zig Zigla
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.Reed Markham, Author, Effective Speechwriting
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.Woody Allen
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.James Grover Thurbe
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.Nikola Tesla
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.Henry David Thoreau
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.Walter Lippmann
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.David Sarnoff
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.Arthur Ashe
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
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother - In - Law.Hubert Humphrey
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have.Zig Zigla
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
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.G. K. Chesterton
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
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
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 not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.Albert Einstein
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
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 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
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.Bobby Unse