Success Quotes

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
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.
Author Unknown
Albert einstein - try not to become a man of success but rather try...
Cynthia wang - persistence plus no dignity equals success....
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...
David Joseph Schwartz
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewig
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
To freely bloom - That is my definition of success.
Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.
Joseph J. Lam
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
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Otto von Bismarck
Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.
Funmi Wale - Adegbite
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
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...
Samuel Smiles
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
Alan Stewart Paton
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
Author Unknown
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards
Successful education is always a two - way street.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas
Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stephenson
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beeche
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.
Machiavelli
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Geoffrey Cottrell
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
Johnny Carson
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
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.
Unknown