Success Quotes

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

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

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Josh Billings

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.

Robert J. Collie

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Unknown

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.

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

Zig Zigla

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One!

Richard M. DeVos

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.

Smiley Blanton

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

Robert Collie

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.

Arlene Raven

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

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

Roger Babson

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

Albert Einstein

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Tryon Edwards

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".

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

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

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elde

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil.

William James

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

Author Unknown

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

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

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

Marcel Proust

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau