Success Quotes
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.Bruce Marton
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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
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 never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.Josh Billings
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 successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
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
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.Joyce
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.T. S. Eliot
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.Bob Dylan
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.Sidney Greenberg
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
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.Edith Sitwell
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.H. L. Mencken
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.Nelson Boswell
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
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.General George Patton
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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.Robert Benchley
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
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
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
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.Christopher Lasch
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.Philip Caldwell
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.Ralph Waldo Emerson
