Success Quotes
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. Washington
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.Woody Allen
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.David McClure Brinkley
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
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.Og Mandino
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.Joyce
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
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.Bernard Mannes Baruch
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.Helen Hayes
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.Michael Eisne
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother - In - Law.Hubert Humphrey
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.Henry Ford
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.Anton Chekhov
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.Bruce Marton
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.James Gilmore Backus
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
Action is the foundational key to all success.Tony Robbins
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.Dwight D Eisenhowe
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.Henry David Thoreau
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.Edith Sitwell
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.Josh Traege
