Success Quotes
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.Robert Louis Stevenson
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.Richard M. Devos
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin
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
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.Bessie A. Stanley
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.Sam Ewig
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
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
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.James Grover Thurbe
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.Herbert B. Swope
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, Worthwhile, Personal Goals.Paul Meye
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
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.David Joseph Schwartz
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.David McClure Brinkley
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.Sloan Wilson
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.Otto von Bismarck
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.Arthur Rubinstein
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
Mental toughness is essential to success.Vince Lombardi
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.Og Mandino
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that 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
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
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.Bill Parcells
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.C. C. Colton
