Success Quotes

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Vince Lombardi

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

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

Mother Theresa

Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.

Swami Vivekananda

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Cullen Hightowe

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 getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

General George Patton

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T. S. Eliot

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

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

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feathe

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sir Harold George Nicolson

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.

R. D. Hitchcock

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

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

Success is a great deodorant.

Elizabeth Taylo

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

John Blake

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells

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

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada