Success Quotes

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Charlie Finley

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

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.

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Author Unknown

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

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

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

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

Albert Schweitze

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

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

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

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

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

Jim Rohn

The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feathe

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - And then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

Mother Theresa

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewig

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.

Sister Mary Lauretta

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

Wilbur N. Nesbit

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

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

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

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

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa