1,306 Success Quotes

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.

The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.

My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

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.

Audacibus annue coeptis

Audentes fortuna iuvat

In the past even I was afraid of my own greatness, therefore I could not stand in front of mirrors.

Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Fuhrer of a people of almost eighty million. ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.

We got a good win today. I'm going to be there offensively, there's no question in my mind. But it feels good to contribute in some other way.

'I'm excited (after hitting for the cycle), but I guess it hasn't hit me yet. I'm only the second Mariner to do it and the other is Jay Buhner, who can't run.'

'Always follow your dreams; don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.'

'Alex is one person, and as it's been shown in New York, one person can't win a championship. He couldn't do it here. He can't do it there. You have to have a team, and you've got to have pitching.' --Rangers owner Tom Hicks, December 24, 2006 [2]

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

The Lord gave us two ends-one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

'Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.'

'One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.'

'You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.'

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

'Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.'

'When I took the match point, all the years, all the effort, all the support I had received over the years came together. It's a long way from Brook Field to Wimbledon.'

'Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.'

'The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.'

Honor ... means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Yes, I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Success is the child of audacity.

Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfilment.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Life is not fair. Get used to it... Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

[Gates] apparently has made more money than anyone else his age, ever, in any business.

Well, it seems to me that he did have an education to get there. It happened to be mine, not his.

I dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one year.

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.

All of humanity now has the option to 'make it' successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful... so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn good livings, so they can accumulate the material things that this society bestows. Those are worthwhile goals. But it is not enough to progress as individuals while our friends and neighbors are left behind.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.