Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

success

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

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

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

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Success is the child of audacity.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

The best revenge is massive success.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Applause waits on success.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

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

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Success can't be forced.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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

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

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Nothing recedes like success.

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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

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.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

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

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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

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.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

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

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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.

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

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

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

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

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

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

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

One fails forward toward success.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

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

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Success has always been a great liar.

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The secret of success is sincerity.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

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

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.