Saturday, January 16, 2010

Quotes on 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Shakespeare

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

The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.
C. V. White

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

Don’t shoot for something unattainable – completely outside of your nature or opportunity.
    - Michael Johnson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
       - Abraham Lincoln

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
   - Aristotle

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
    - Ernest Hemingway

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
- Michael Johnson

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
       - Traditional Proverb

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
  - Anna Quindlen

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
- Rodney Dangerfield

You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
    - Michael Johnson

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
       - Christy Borgeld

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- David McCullough

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
- Emily Dickinson

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

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
    - Michael Johnson

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
  - Gerry Spence

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
  - Henry David Thoreau

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
       - Yiddish Proverb

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

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success
    - Michael Johnson

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
    - Michel Montaigne, sixteenth-century French essayist

It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.
    - Michael Johnson