Success Quotes

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

Confucius

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Tony Robbins

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Napolean Hill

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.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

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

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Elbert Hubbard

Successful education is always a two - way street.

Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

Cynthia Wang

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".

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

Thomas Wolfe

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

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 surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

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

Roger H. Lincoln

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

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

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

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

Pete Johnson

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

Earl Nightingale

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Otto von Bismarck

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beeche

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus