Success Quotes

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.

John Alan Appleman

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

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

There are two rules for success: 1 Never tell everything you know.

Roger H. Lincoln

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

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

Henry David Thoreau

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwa

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

John Blake

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

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewig

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Diana Rankin

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Kelle

Success is dependent upon the glands - - Sweat glands.

Zig Zigla

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Lana Turne

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dave Del Dotto

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide - Awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

Frank Shutts

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Marsha Evans

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napolean Hill

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

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Golda Mei

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Elbert Hubbard