Success Quotes

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

Joseph J. Lam

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

Samuel Smiles

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

Nelson Boswell

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother - In - Law.

Hubert Humphrey

Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Lana Turne

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

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

Jules Renard

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beeche

For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.

Cathleen Douglas

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

Albert Einstein

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

Francis Saint De Sales

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Author Unknown

Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Lady Wilde

It is better to succeed with success than failure.

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

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

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

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

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Mille

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.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Tryon Edwards

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

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

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

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Unknown

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

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

Josh Traege