Quotes about Success

• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides

• They can because they think they can. Virgil

• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson

• Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. Theodore T. Hunger

• We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory. Cicero

• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Loyd Wright

• The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Richard Brinsley Sherida

• A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard

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

• Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. A. Branson Alcott

• The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis

• The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance. Owen Feltham

• Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley

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

• Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Jeremy Collier

• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope

• Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Josh Billings

• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Earl of Beaconsfield

• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. Evan Esar

• If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Jospeph Addison

• Impatience never commanded success. Edwin H. Chapin

• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. Henry W. Longfellow

• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare

• Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields

• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier

• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley

• Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. Shirley Jones

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Abraham Lincoln

• Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. Lydia M. Child

• Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry 

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

• Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Benjamin Disraeli

• Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. David Frost

• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck

• Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes

• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie

• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty

• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? Logan P. Smith

• I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. Jonathan Winters

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby

• I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns

• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields

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