Success Quotes
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
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
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.Barbara Tuchman
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.Robert Louis Stevenson
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.Zig Zigla
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
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
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Unknown
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Success covers a multitude of blunders.George Bernard Shaw
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.Niccolo Machiavelli
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.Bob Dylan
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.Robert P. Vanderpoel
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.Joseph Helle
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.Michael Korda
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".
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Anna Quindlen
Success is never final.Sir Winston Churchill
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
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Baudjuin
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.Casey Stengel
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
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
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Success and failure are equally disastrous.Tennessee Williams
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.Thomas B. Reed
