Success Quotes
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
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.Golda Mei
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.David McCullough
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
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.Barbara Tuchman
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.Woody Allen
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.James Gilmore Backus
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
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
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.Jim Rohn
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
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
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.Mary Wilson Little
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.Sri da Avabhas
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.Marcel Proust
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.Eddie Canto
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
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.Henry David Thoreau
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.Johnny Carson
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.Napolean Hill
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
To freely bloom - That is my definition of success.Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
