Success Quotes: Inspiring Words for a Prosperous Life (Page 2)

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

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success"

Larry Ellison, Businessman

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

Anna Pavlova, Dancer

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

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President

"Success has always been a great liar"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"People fall forward to success"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats"

Og Mandino, Author

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved"

Helen Keller, Author

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"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, Dramatist

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

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

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Failure is success if we learn from it"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Consistency is key to success"

Ben Smith, Athlete

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

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success"

Max Born, Mathematician

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

Christopher Morley, Author

"Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear"

Dan Millman, Author

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

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world"

John McDonald, Leader

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

Jean Cocteau, Director

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

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success"

Martin Van Buren, President

"How does one measure the success of a museum?"

Paul Getty, Businessman

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