Success Quotes

Character is what can do without success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

R. D. Hitchcock

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feathe

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

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success is dependent upon the glands - - Sweat glands.

Zig Zigla

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 to things.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

Cynthia Wang

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Field Marshall John French

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

Sir Harold George Nicolson

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

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

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

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

David W. Johnson

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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

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

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Earl Nightingale

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

There are two rules for success: 1 Never tell everything you know.

Roger H. Lincoln

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

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Cullen Hightowe

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

Dale Carnegie

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Robert J. Collie