Success Quotes
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
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.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.Tennessee Williams
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
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.Denis Watley
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".
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.John Alan Appleman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.Richard Feynman
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.Albert Einstein
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.Cecil B. DeMille
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.I Ching
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William Feathe
One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.Claude M. Bristol
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
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
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.Thomas B. Reed
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.Bruce Marton
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.Arthur Rubinstein
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.Anthony Trollope
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.Confucius
The road to success is always under construction.Jim Mille
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...David Joseph Schwartz
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.David Joseph Schwartz
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.Golda Mei
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
