Success Quotes
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
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
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.
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
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.Tennessee Williams
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.Og Mandino
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.Aristotle Onassis
Why be a man when you can be a success?Bertolt Brecht
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.Joyce
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.Lana Turne
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People fail forward to success.Mary Kay Ash
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.Earl Nightingale
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
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Booker T. Washington
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.Akhenaton
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
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.Jim Rohn
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.Zig Zigla
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
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
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
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.T. T. Munge
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".
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
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
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
