Success Quotes

"I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

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

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'"

David Schwimmer, Actor

"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success"

Dorthea Brande, Writer

"Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax"

Eva Green, Actress

"I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good"

Joe Paterno, Coach

"It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

"Success is not just about making money or achieving your goals. It's about having a positive impact on the world and making a difference in people's lives"

George Gillett, Businessman

"I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

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

David Frost, Journalist

"Nothing succeeds like reports of success"

Sue Sanders, Activist

"If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up"

Lou Gerstner, Businessman

"We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"The margin between success and drama is fractional"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

"Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

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

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already"

Andy Garcia, Actor

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

Arthur Helps, Historian

"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success"

Greg Akcelrod, Athlete

"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance"

Ramana Maharshi, Philosopher

"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice"

John Stott, Clergyman

"Success is dependent on effort"

Sophocles, Author

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

Mark Twain, Author

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

Mark Twain, Author

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Applause waits on success"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up"

Woody Allen, Director

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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