Success Quotes

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

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

Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Stewart Paton

Successful education is always a two - way street.

Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Anne Sullivan

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

David McClure Brinkley

There is no disinfectant like success.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

David McCullough

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Napolean Hill

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

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.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Mary Wilson Little

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

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

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

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

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisne

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

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

Unknown

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.

Mark Twain

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

David W. Johnson

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

Mother Theresa

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...

David Joseph Schwartz

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney