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.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Every dog must have his day.

Man only honors what he conquers or defends.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

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

No star playing, just football.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

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

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

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

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

All great achievements require time.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

Winner knows nothing about food.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.