Success Quotes

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Anne Sullivan

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.

Swami Vivekananda

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.

Machiavelli

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

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Philip Dormer Chesterfield

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

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

David W. Johnson

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

Sister Mary Lauretta

Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.

Reed Markham, Author, Effective Speechwriting

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

H. L. Mencken

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is success I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

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

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.

Robert J. Collie

Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....

John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.

During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03

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

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

Zig Zigla

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

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

Unknown

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

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Harris

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan