Success Quotes

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley

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

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

H. L. Mencken

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

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

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

Sidney Madwed

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, Worthwhile, Personal Goals.

Paul Meye

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Earl Nightingale

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Robert Ardrey

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

Tom Rose

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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

Successful education is always a two - way street.

Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

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

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.

Mark Twain

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Mell Lazzarus

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

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

Maryon Pearson