Success Quotes

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

General George Patton

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Maya Angelou

If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefelle

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Vernon Howard

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 while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837

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

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

Joseph J. Lam

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother - In - Law.

Hubert Humphrey

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Canto

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.

Dorthea Bragg

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

James Gilmore Backus

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

Jim Rohn

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.

Casey Stengel

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.

Thomas Peters

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

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

Paul Meye

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Diane Ackerman

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

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Elbert Hubbard

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T. S. Eliot

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

Unknown

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

C. C. Colton

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson