Success Quotes
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.Niccolo Machiavelli
Failure is success if we learn from it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.Richard M. Devos
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
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.Booker T. Washington
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
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.Author Unknown
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.Henry Ford
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.H. L. Mencken
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.Nelson Boswell
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.Henry Ward Beeche
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
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.
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.Mike Ditka
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.Erica Jong
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.Henry David Thoreau
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
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974
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
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
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
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.John Blake
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.Akhenaton
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.Lily Tomlin
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?Elbert Hubbard
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.Brian Tracy
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
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.Cullen Hightowe
Success is dependent on effort.Sophocles
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.Robert Montgomery
