Quotes About Success

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistance and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

Be nice to the people on your way up because you are going to meet the same people on your way down.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

Sometimes the only difference between success and failure is a point in time.

First prize is not a gold statue, but is something to be proud of.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Struther Burt

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

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

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Franebowitz (1950 - )

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

 

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time

 

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

 

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
Woodrow T. Wilson

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket.