Success Quotes

Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Mell Lazzarus

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

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Charles A. Lindbergh

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller, 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.

Booker T. Washington

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

General George Patton

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Diane Ackerman

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

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

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.

Smiley Blanton

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

David McCullough

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Every failure is a step to success...

William Whewell

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

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Henry Ford

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Michael Korda

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Author Unknown

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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 cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Zigla

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

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Zigla

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Tony Robbins

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

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