Success Quotes
It is better to succeed with success than failure.George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.Robert Benchley
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
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".
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
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
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.Pablo Picasso
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil.William James
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.David McCullough
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 Elde
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.Orison Swett Marden
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.Erma Bombeck
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.Mell Lazzarus
Character can not 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
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.Norman Vincent Peale
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.Henry Ford
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
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.Dr. David M. Burns
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
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.Mother Theresa
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
