Success Quotes

Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Zigla

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

Serious Sincere Systematic Service Surely Secures Supreme Success.

Unknown

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Author Unknown

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Al Bernstein

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Field Marshall John French

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Unknown

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

William Blake

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

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

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

Vernon Howard

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Robert Ardrey

I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.

Casey Stengel

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Character is what can do without success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

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

Lily Tomlin

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

The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

Unknown

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

Geoffrey Cottrell

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 more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

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

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

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney