Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

success

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. 11 sayings from Bruce Lee

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. 21 thoughts from Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success. 2 quotes from Maude Adams

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. 21 thoughts from Dale Carnegie

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? 12 wisdom & wit from James Allen

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. 20 more thoughts from George S. Patton

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. 39 thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. 8 quotes from Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 74 more quotes from Winston Churchill

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. 21 quotes from Dale Carnegie

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. 20 quotes from George S. Patton

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. 13 more quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. 3 other quotes from George A. Sheehan

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. 2 other views from Soichiro Honda

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. 39 more quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. 52 more quotes from George Eliot

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. 21 sayings from Dale Carnegie

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. 20 quotes from George S. Patton

There is little success where there is little laughter. 13 more sayings from Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! 13 other quotes from Andrew Carnegie

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. 21 wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie

Success is 99 percent failure. 2 quotes from Soichiro Honda

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something. 4 other views from Morihei Ueshiba

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. 12 views from J. Paul Getty

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. 7 thoughts from Samuel Smiles

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. 18 wisdom & wit from Margaret Mead

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. 68 other thoughts from Samuel Butler

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. 12 wisdom & wit from J. Paul Getty

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man. 17 quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. 30 other views from Gustave Flaubert

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. 26 quotes from Emily Dickinson

Success is the child of audacity. 75 more thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. 3 quotes from Noel Coward

The best revenge is massive success. 10 other thoughts from Frank Sinatra

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. 17 other quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. 75 more quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. 75 other sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other. 17 quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. 3 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. 5 thoughts from Jean Genet

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. 4 more quotes from William Lloyd Garrison

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. 25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. 15 more quotes from Albert Schweitzer

Applause waits on success. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. 30 wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others. 6 more views from Jules Renard

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. 24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. 21 other quotes from George Burns

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. 21 more sayings from George Burns

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. 24 more views from W. C. Fields

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. 14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. 4 sayings from William J. H. Boetcker

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. 2 other quotes from Robert W. Service

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. 25 thoughts from Orison Swett Marden

Nothing succeeds like success. 4 other quotes from Alexandre Dumas

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' 7 more quotes from Joey Adams

Success can't be forced. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 15 views from Albert Schweitzer

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours. 25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. 6 other views from Jules Renard

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. 30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. 15 thoughts from Albert Schweitzer

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. 3 other sayings from Paramahansa Yogananda

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. 4 views from William J. H. Boetcker

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. 14 sayings from Charles de Montesquieu

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. 2 more quotes from Robert Heller

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. 3 views from Lydia M. Child

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. 30 wisdom & wit from George Washington

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other. 33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. 26 thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. 23 more quotes from Thomas A. Edison

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. 14 other wisdom & wit from Jessica Savitch

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. 16 quotes from Havelock Ellis

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. 12 quotes from George Jean Nathan

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. 19 more sayings from Alfred North Whitehead

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. 26 other quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. 3 thoughts from Robert Baden-Powell

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. 47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. 24 other thoughts from Ayn Rand

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. 2 quotes from John Foster Dulles

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. 9 thoughts from Howard Nemerov

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. 3 more wisdom & wit from David Sarnoff

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. 6 quotes from Thomas J. Watson

Why be a man when you can be a success? 14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came. 6 sayings from Eva Gabor

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. 5 views from Anna Pavlova

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. 3 more quotes from Alexander Graham Bell

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. 3 more quotes from Herbert Kaufman

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

Success and failure are equally disastrous. 17 quotes from Tennessee Williams

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. 17 quotes from Tennessee Williams

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. 6 quotes from Earl Nightingale

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. 3 wisdom & wit from Alexander Graham Bell

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. 6 wisdom & wit from Phyllis McGinley

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent. 4 wisdom & wit from George Allen, Sr.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success. 7 other thoughts from Joseph Barber Lightfoot

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. 2 quotes from Max Planck

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. 5 quotes from Charlotte Bronte

Nothing recedes like success. 3 views from Walter Winchell

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. 20 more sayings from Herbert Spencer

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. 9 thoughts from Anthony Trollope

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. 9 more views from Robert Collier

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. 10 sayings from Booker T. Washington

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. 9 other quotes from Robert Collier

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. 3 sayings from Edward Everett Hale

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. 6 quotes from Harvey S. Firestone

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. 9 quotes from Robert Collier

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. 11 quotes from William Ellery Channing

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. 9 quotes from George Henry Lewes

A minute's success pays the failure of years. 22 more views from Robert Browning

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. 26 more quotes from Sigmund Freud

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. 2 quotes from George Edward Woodberry

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. 22 other thoughts from James Dyson

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. 11 wisdom & wit from Norman Vincent Peale

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. 4 quotes from Florence Nightingale

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. 52 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. 21 quotes from Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. 21 more quotes from Malcolm X

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. 22 quotes from James Dyson

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. 6 views from Bernard Meltzer

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. 14 more quotes from Audrey Hepburn

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. 10 views from B. C. Forbes

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. 11 other sayings from Salvador Dali

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. 2 sayings from Irving Berlin

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 15 quotes from Christopher Morley

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. 23 more sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. 6 other views from Harry Emerson Fosdick

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. 59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. 59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. 58 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. 2 other sayings from William Pollard

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. 14 views from Thomas Hardy

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. 20 more sayings from Christopher Lasch

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. 59 other thoughts from Elbert Hubbard

Success demands singleness of purpose. 16 other quotes from Vince Lombardi

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. 7 other quotes from Lillian Hellman

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. 16 wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. 12 wisdom & wit from Marquis de Sade

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. 16 quotes from Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. 16 other wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. 21 sayings from Mignon McLaughlin

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. 4 views from Ben Jonson

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. 32 other quotes from Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success. 32 quotes from Henry Ford

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? 24 more quotes from Jean Cocteau

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 32 wisdom & wit from Henry Ford

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. 35 other views from Ernest Hemingway

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. 10 more thoughts from John D. Rockefeller

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. 3 views from Roger Babson

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. 3 quotes from Roger Babson

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. 10 other quotes from Arthur Ashe

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. 10 quotes from John D. Rockefeller

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. 10 views from Arthur Ashe

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. 6 more sayings from Elias Canetti

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. 24 quotes from Jean Cocteau

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything. 2 wisdom & wit from Nelson Rockefeller

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. 11 views from William Osler

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? 24 more quotes from Jean Cocteau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. 117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. 6 quotes from Arthur Helps

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. 6 views from Elias Canetti

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. 5 sayings from Charles Horton Cooley

Failure is success if we learn from it. 12 more wisdom & wit from Malcolm Forbes

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. 15 views from Walter Scott

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. 16 wisdom & wit from Samuel Goldwyn

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. 16 quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. 50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte

One fails forward toward success. 11 sayings from Charles Kettering

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. 31 views from Mae West

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. 31 views from Mae West

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. 15 views from Walter Scott

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. 12 sayings from Malcolm Forbes

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. 16 views from Coco Chanel

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. 15 other quotes from Walter Scott

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. 22 quotes from William Feather

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work. 22 thoughts from William Feather

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' 5 more quotes from Maria Montessori

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. 10 views from Luc de Clapiers

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. 10 quotes from Max Beerbohm

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. 3 sayings from Walter Pater

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. 14 sayings from F. Scott Fitzgerald

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are. 3 views from Bill Shankly

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. 24 other thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. 4 quotes from Truman Capote

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. 8 wisdom & wit from Charles Kuralt

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! 3 wisdom & wit from David O. McKay

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. 2 thoughts from Florence Scovel Shinn

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. 7 other views from Swami Sivananda

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. 4 more quotes from Al Capp

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. 14 quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. 2 more quotes from Michael Faraday

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. 15 thoughts from Cyril Connolly

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? 27 quotes from Kin Hubbard

My literary success meant nothing to me. 10 other views from Taylor Caldwell

Action is the foundational key to all success. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. 36 other views from Theodore Roosevelt

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. 6 quotes from Sarah Bernhardt

Success has always been a great liar. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result. 100 other sayings from Oscar Wilde

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. 29 wisdom & wit from Pablo Picasso

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. 11 quotes from Graham Greene

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

The secret of success is sincerity. 7 quotes from Jean Giraudoux

The starting point of all achievement is desire. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. 13 other sayings from Mahalia Jackson

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. 28 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. 4 views from Thomas Wolfe

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. 28 other wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. 3 quotes from P. G. Wodehouse

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. 6 thoughts from Bela Lugosi