Success Quotes

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Author Unknown

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilde

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

Successful education is always a two - way street.

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

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

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

H. L. Mencken

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

Elbert Hubbard

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Sidney Greenberg

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

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Anon.

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

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.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

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

I Ching

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Jeff Herman

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

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

Nelson Boswell

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

Wilbur N. Nesbit

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Character cannot 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

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

Bo Jackson

To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

Sidney Madwed

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Pete Johnson

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

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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.

Josh Traege