Success Quotes

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

Salvador Dali, Artist

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

Samuel Butler, Poet

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

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

George Eliot, Author

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

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

Thomas Edison, Inventor

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

Thomas Edison, Inventor

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

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results"

William James, Philosopher

"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

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

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you"

Mary Wilson Little, Writer

"She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract"

Neil Tennant, Musician

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

Walter Scott, Novelist

"One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like"

Sting, Musician

"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success"

Sting, Musician

"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep"

Walter Scott, Novelist

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