Success Quotes
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.Robert J. McKain
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
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.Akhenaton
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.Walter Lippmann
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.Dr. William Claire Menninge
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.Christopher Lasch
Successful people breed success.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.Anthony Robbins
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
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.Machiavelli
To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.Sister Mary Lauretta
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, Worthwhile, Personal Goals.Paul Meye
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
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
Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.I Ching
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
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Unknown
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.Brian Tracy
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
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
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.T. S. Eliot
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
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
Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.Alan Stewart Paton
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.Robert Louis Stevenson
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.Henry Ford
