Success Quotes

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Elbert Hubbard
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Author unknown - the secret of success is to do all you can do...
Leonard bernstein - any great work of art revives and readapts time...
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Diane Ackerman
Casey stengel - i was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a...
What is success I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
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".
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
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.
Samuel Cunningham
I have 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
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Mary Wilson Little
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
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
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas
There is no disinfectant like success.
Daniel J. Boorstin
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
David Brink
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Robert Benchley
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
Frederick Chiluba
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
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
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
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
Mother Theresa
It is better to succeed with success than failure.
George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
Claude M. Bristol
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David McClure Brinkley
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Watkins Harpe
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
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Sri da Avabhas
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beeche