Success Quotes

"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"A minute's success pays the failure of years"

Robert Browning, Poet

"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal"

Don Shula, Coach

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Don't be a person of success, be a person of value"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Success is built on consistency. It's not about the highs and lows; it's about putting in the work day in and day out"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second"

John Steinbeck, Author

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure"

George W. Bush, President

"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success"

Joe Baca, Politician

"In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success"

Barack Obama, President

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

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion"

Barack Obama, President

"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

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