Success Quotes
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.Tennessee Williams
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
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.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
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
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.Mell Lazzarus
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William Feathe
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
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
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
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.Bo Jackson
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.Sri da Avabhas
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream.Brendan Francis
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
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
Success is achieved and maintained by those who TRY, And keep TRYING. Where there is nothing to lose by TRYING, And a great deal to gain if SUCCESSFUL, By all means, TRY. DO IT NOWW. Clement Stone
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.Charles Luckman
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.Author Unknown
There are no speed limits on the road to success.David W. Johnson
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.Albert Einstein
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.Henry Kissinge
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Herman Cain
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
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
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for. success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.David McCullough
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
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".
The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
