Success Quotes

"Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self."

"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."

"You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman."

"I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success."

"Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."

"Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

"You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear."

"I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success."

"When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more."

"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."

"The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'"

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

"Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways."

"Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading."

"The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say."

"I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'"

"Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order."

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."

"In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it."

"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."

"I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success."

"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

"Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work."

"Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within."

"Why be a man when you can be a success?"

"You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret."

"To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members."

"We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases."

"Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy."

"Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God."

"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."

"I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience."

"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."

"I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."

"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."

"The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success."

"I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission."

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."

"Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches."

"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."