Success Quotes
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.Charles Horton Cooley
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.Josh Billings
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.Machiavelli
Persistence plus no dignity equals success.Cynthia Wang
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.Barbara Tuchman
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...Jim Rohn
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
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
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
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
Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.Author Unknown
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.Charlie Finley
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Anna Quindlen
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.Niccolo Machiavelli
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
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
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.Author Unknown
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
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother - In - Law.Hubert Humphrey
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
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.Al Bernstein
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.Lana Turne
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
Why be a man when you can be a success?Bertolt Brecht
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain