Friday, November 07, 2008

Great Success Quotes

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 Smith


Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames


The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. ~B.C. Forbes


If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. ~Arthur McAuliff (Thanks, Fernanda)


If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp


If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ~Author Unknown


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

Wise Success Quotes

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson


Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson


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


There is no success but your own success. ~Leslie Grimutter


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln


Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Author Unknown


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. ~Booker T. Washington

Inspirational Success Quotes

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot


Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. ~Garrett Hazel


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


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


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


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

Motivational Success Quotes

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite


The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown


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

Famous Success Quotes

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896


Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King


Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams


Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller


Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

Quotations about Effort

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison


Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips


The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs


He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall


Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers

Quotations about Success

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin


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


There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher


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


Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown


Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations: Dare To Be Great!

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown


The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter

Quotations about Confidence To Success


Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller


Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein


Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown


Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown

Quotations about Perseverance To Success

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com


He conquers who endures. ~Persius


The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."


You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein


Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life