Success Quotes
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".
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Unknown
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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 while trying to succeed.Booker T. Washington
I 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
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.Barbara Paley
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
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.Stephen A. Brennan
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
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.Thomas Peters
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
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.Vince Lombardi
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
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.H. L. Mencken
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
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harpe
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.Robert Collie
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.Elbert Hubbard
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
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.Sloan Wilson
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.Mignon McLaughlin
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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
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
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
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
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.Al Capp
