Success Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.

Fred Waggone

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napolean Hill

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

Vidal Sassoon

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

Henry Ward Beeche

The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

Unknown

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Helen Hayes

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

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

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

David McCullough

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

Earl Wilson

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Golda Mei

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)

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 and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

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

Marcel Proust

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

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

It is better to succeed with success than failure.

George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

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

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.

I Ching

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Ian Fleming

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

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

Earl Nightingale