Success Quotes

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Diane Ackerman

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

Roger H. Lincoln

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Mignon McLaughlin

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

David W. Johnson

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Dicky Barrett

The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974

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

Richard Harris

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilde

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

Zig Zigla

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.

Author Unknown

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Earl Wilson

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Donald Kendall

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Akhenaton

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

Robert Collie

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Author Unknown

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

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.

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Samuel Cunningham

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Scott Adams

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

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

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

William Feathe

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Mille

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

Albert Einstein

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

Cynthia Wang

No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry Kissinge

Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge