Success Quotes
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.John Blake
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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 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
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.Vincent Lombardi
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.Joseph J. Lam
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.Robert P. Vanderpoel
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
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
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.Elbert Hubbard
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
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.Rita Rudne
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.Henry Ford
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
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
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.Bo Jackson
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.Helen Hayes
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
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.Thornton Wilde
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.Erma Bombeck
There are no speed limits on the road to success.David W. Johnson
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.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