Success Quotes

David mccullough - real success is finding your lifework in the work...
R. buckminster fuller, operating manual for spaceship earth, 1963 - of course, our failures are a consequence of many...
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden
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 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
To freely bloom - That is my definition of success.
Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Watley
Why be a man when you can be a success.
Bertolt Brecht
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
Author Unknown
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 is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Zigla
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Mike Ditka
Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.
Jeff Herman
The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Sri da Avabhas
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.
Reed Markham, Author, Effective Speechwriting
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Canto
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams
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 important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
Philip Caldwell
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H. L. Mencken
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Mille
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
Robert F. Bennett
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington