Success Quotes

Albert einstein - try not to become a man of success but rather to...
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Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.
Tom Rose
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
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
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
Josephine Preston Peabody
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney Harris
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
John Fellows Akers
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Zigla
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
Arlene Raven
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Diane Ackerman
Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.
Smiley Blanton
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Author Unknown
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Canto
Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.
Swami Vivekananda
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorthea Bragg
Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewig
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".
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
C. C. Colton
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
There are two rules for success: 1 Never tell everything you know.
Roger H. Lincoln
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.
Dicky Barrett