Success Quotes
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.Aristotle Onassis
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.Florence Scovel Shinn
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
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
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.Philip Caldwell
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
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.Confucius
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William Feathe
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 secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.Lily Tomlin
Every failure is a step to success...William Whewell
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
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.Josephine Preston Peabody
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.Arthur Ashe
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.Donald Kendall
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.Author Unknown
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.Author Unknown
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.Louise Nevelson
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.Mary Wilson Little
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 lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Mental toughness is essential to success.Vince Lombardi
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.Kurt Lewin
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.Henry Ford
Why be a man when you can be a success.Bertolt Brecht
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
Character is what can do without success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - And then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
