Success Quotes

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this dream a great dream.

John A. Appleman

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

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

Author Unknown

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.

Dorthea Bragg

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

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

Golda Mei

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.

Thomas Peters

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

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Joyce

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

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

Albert Einstein

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Henry Ford

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Robert Louis Stephenson

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

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

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

William Feathe

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

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

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vincent Lombardi

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

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

Swami Sivanada

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Field Marshall John French

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisne

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.

Smiley Blanton

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

Anonymous

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Robert Benchley

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - And then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

Mother Theresa

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein