Success Quotes

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream.

Brendan Francis

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 greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Sidney Greenberg

If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefelle

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Michael Korda

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850

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

Swami Vivekananda

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisne

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

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

Anon.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.

Edith Sitwell

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

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

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

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.

Arlene Raven

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Marsha Evans

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

Samuel Cunningham

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Joyce

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Josephine Preston Peabody

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

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

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Tryon Edwards

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.

Casey Stengel