Success Quotes
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Success Quotes
Quotations on Life

• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. - Ross Perot


• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - Harold MacMillan


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


• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard


• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill


• Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. - Sam Ewing


• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. - Sloan Wilson


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


• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. - Oscar Wilde


• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. - Tennessee Williams


• Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocles


• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie


• Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill


• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George S. Patton


• Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. - Kevin Spacey


• Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. - Al Bernstein


• Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. - Arnold H. Glasow


• Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Wilson

Success Quotes
Leadership Quotes

• Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. - Charles Luckman


• Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. - Ambrose Bierce


• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington


• Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H. Glasow


• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather


• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Paterno


• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. - W. Somerset Maugham


• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. - Ayn Rand


• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. - B. C. Forbes


• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles


• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt


• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin


• Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. - Larry King


• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein


• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher


• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley


• Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso


• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. - Abraham Lincoln


• Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry


• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie


• Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. - David Frost


• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck


• Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes


• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie


• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J. Paul Getty


• I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters


• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby


• I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns


• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan


• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. - W. C. Fields


• If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. - Juliana Hatfield


• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. - Anthony J. D'Angelo


• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby

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