Success Quotes
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
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of audacity.Benjamin Disraeli
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
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
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.Paul Sweeney
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.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
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.Confucius
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
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
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
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
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
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.Thomas B. Reed
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is dependent upon the glands - - Sweat glands.Zig Zigla
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.Bo Jackson
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.Henry Ward Beeche
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
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.Nelson Boswell
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.T. T. Munge
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.Albert Schweitze
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
