Success Quotes
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.H. L. Mencken
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
Success covers a multitude of blunders.George Bernard Shaw
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.Corrine Dewlow
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.Edith Sitwell
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.Henry Ford
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
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
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.Jim Rohn
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 Elde
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?Brendan Francis
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
To freely bloom - That is my definition of success.Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil.William James
Successful education is always a two - way street.Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
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.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Herman Cain
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William Feathe
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
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
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.Vidal Sassoon
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.James Grover Thurbe
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.Og Mandino
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that 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
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.Einstein
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche