Success Quotes
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
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
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.G. K. Chesterton
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Success is a great deodorant.Elizabeth Taylo
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.Walter Lippmann
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.Henry Ford
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
Success is the child of audacity.Benjamin Disraeli
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.David McClure Brinkley
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.Clement Stone
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
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
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.Barbara Tuchman
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.Albert Schweitze
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 has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Unknown
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
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.David Sarnoff
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.Francis Saint De Sales
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.Geoffrey Cottrell
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.Earl Nightingale
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.Benjamin Disraeli
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.Golda Mei
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 of things.Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532
Success is achieved and maintained by those who TRY, And keep TRYING. Where there is nothing to lose by TRYING, And a great deal to gain if SUCCESSFUL, By all means, TRY. DO IT NOWW. Clement Stone
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 Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.John F. Kennedy
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
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
