Success Quotes

Mark twain, letter to mrs foote, dec. 2, 1887 - all you need in this life is ignorance and...
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
David joseph schwartz - think little goals and expect little...
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
Why be a man when you can be a success.
Bertolt Brecht
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.
Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.
Swami Vivekananda
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.
Unknown
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feathe
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.
Orison Swett Marden
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
Aubrey Menen
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Robert Benchley
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Author Unknown
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.
John Alan Appleman
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Akhenaton
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
Joyce
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewig
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Ian Fleming
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....
John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.
Thomas Peters
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas
Character can not 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
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
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
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
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie A. Stanley
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
Eugene McCarthy