Success Quotes
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.Al Bernstein
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.Henry David Thoreau
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.Harlan Mille
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.Mignon McLaughlin
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.David McCullough
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.Tom Rose
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
People fail forward to success.Mary Kay Ash
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have.Zig Zigla
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
Eighty percent of success is showing up.Woody Allen
If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.John D. Rockefelle
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.T. T. Munge
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.Elbert Hubbard
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harpe
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.Tennessee Williams
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.Samuel Smiles
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.Anthony Robbins
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.General George Patton
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.Richard Feynman
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
