Success Quotes

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
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
Joyce
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
Author Unknown
There is no disinfectant like success.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Bessie a. stanley - he has achieved success who has lived well,...
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
Author unknown - replying to the tributes paid to him at a...
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
I Ching
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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 distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Ian Fleming
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
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
Benjamin disraeli - success is the child of audacity....
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
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.
Robert Montgomery
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
No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
Aubrey Menen
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
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Mary Wilson Little
Every failure is a step to success...
William Whewell
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
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
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
Robert J. Collie
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.
Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg
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... 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
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
Philip Caldwell
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney Harris
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
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
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Boutros Boutros - Ghali
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 A. Appleman
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
There are no speed limits on the road to success.
David W. Johnson