Success Quotes

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

General George Patton

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Bobby Unse

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

Anonymous

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Mell Lazzarus

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewig

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

William James

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Vince Lombardi

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Michael Korda

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide - Awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

Frank Shutts

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

Napolean Hill

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.

Mark Twain

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Cullen Hightowe

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Harris

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

David W. Johnson

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Michael J. Gel

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Vernon Howard

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.

Mark Twain

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

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Asto

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

David McCullough

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein