Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. 3 sayings 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 other quotes from Herbert Kaufman
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. 105 more thoughts from Albert Einstein
Success and failure are equally disastrous. 17 more sayings 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 more views 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 quotes from Phyllis McGinley
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent. 4 thoughts from George Allen, Sr.
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success. 7 other quotes 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 other quotes from Max Planck
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. 5 wisdom & wit from Charlotte Bronte
Nothing recedes like success. 3 more quotes from Walter Winchell
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. 20 thoughts from Herbert Spencer
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. 9 more thoughts from Anthony Trollope
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. 9 more quotes 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 views from Booker T. Washington
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. 9 other sayings 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 other quotes 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 other quotes from Robert Collier
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. 11 more wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit from George Henry Lewes
A minute's success pays the failure of years. 22 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. 2 sayings from George Edward Woodberry
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. 22 quotes from James Dyson
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. 11 quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. 4 other sayings 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 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. 21 views from Malcolm X
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. 21 quotes from Malcolm X
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. 22 more quotes from James Dyson
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. 6 more quotes from Bernard Meltzer
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. 14 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from B. C. Forbes
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. 11 thoughts from Salvador Dali
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. 2 thoughts from Irving Berlin
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 15 wisdom & wit from Christopher Morley
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. 23 other sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. 6 wisdom & wit from Harry Emerson Fosdick
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. 59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. 59 views 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 views from Elbert Hubbard
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. 58 other 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 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 wisdom & wit from William Pollard
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. 14 wisdom & wit from Thomas Hardy
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. 20 sayings from Christopher Lasch
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Success demands singleness of purpose. 16 thoughts 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 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. 7 other views from Lillian Hellman
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. 58 other 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 other thoughts from Vince Lombardi
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. 12 views from Marquis de Sade
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. 16 more sayings from Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. 16 views 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 more 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 other quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. 4 quotes from Ben Jonson
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. 32 other thoughts from Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success. 32 other quotes from Henry Ford
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? 24 sayings from Jean Cocteau
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 32 quotes 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 thoughts 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 other thoughts from John D. Rockefeller
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. 3 quotes from Roger Babson
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. 3 wisdom & wit from Roger Babson
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. 10 thoughts 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 more quotes from John D. Rockefeller
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. 10 more quotes from Arthur Ashe
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. 6 thoughts from Elias Canetti
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. 117 quotes 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 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything. 2 sayings from Nelson Rockefeller
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. 11 sayings from William Osler
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? 24 quotes from Jean Cocteau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. 6 other thoughts from Arthur Helps
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. 6 wisdom & wit from Elias Canetti
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. 5 quotes from Charles Horton Cooley
Failure is success if we learn from it. 12 other quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
One fails forward toward success. 11 thoughts from Charles Kettering
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. 31 other wisdom & wit from Mae West
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. 31 quotes from Mae West
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. 15 quotes from Walter Scott
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. 12 other quotes from Malcolm Forbes
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. 16 sayings from Coco Chanel
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. 15 sayings from Walter Scott
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. 22 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes 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 quotes from Maria Montessori
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. 10 more thoughts from Luc de Clapiers
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. 10 more quotes from Max Beerbohm
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. 3 thoughts from Walter Pater
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. 14 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 views from Henri Frederic Amiel
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. 4 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from David O. McKay
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. 2 more thoughts from Florence Scovel Shinn
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. 7 quotes from Swami Sivananda
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. 4 other sayings 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 more quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. 2 other 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 other quotes from Cyril Connolly
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? 27 other quotes from Kin Hubbard
My literary success meant nothing to me. 10 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. 36 more quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. 28 thoughts from Napoleon Hill
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. 6 sayings from Sarah Bernhardt
Success has always been a great liar. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result. 100 more quotes 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 views from Pablo Picasso
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. 11 other quotes from Graham Greene
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. 28 other thoughts from Napoleon Hill
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. 36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
The secret of success is sincerity. 7 other quotes from Jean Giraudoux
The starting point of all achievement is desire. 28 other sayings from Napoleon Hill
They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. 13 other views 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 sayings from Napoleon Hill
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. 4 quotes from Thomas Wolfe
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. 28 other sayings from Napoleon Hill
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. 3 other wisdom & wit from P. G. Wodehouse
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. 6 quotes from Bela Lugosi
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 98 more thoughts from Mark Twain
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. 98 more views 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 quotes from Bruce Lee
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. 21 views from Dale Carnegie
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success. 2 sayings from Maude Adams
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. 21 other wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? 12 quotes 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 other quotes 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 sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 other views 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 thoughts from Dale Carnegie
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. 20 thoughts from George S. Patton
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. 13 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 views from George A. Sheehan
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. 2 other quotes from Soichiro Honda
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. 39 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 thoughts 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 more quotes from George S. Patton
There is little success where there is little laughter. 13 quotes from Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! 13 more sayings from Andrew Carnegie
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. 98 views 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 thoughts from Soichiro Honda
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something. 4 other sayings from Morihei Ueshiba
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. 12 quotes 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 sayings 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 more quotes from Margaret Mead
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. 12 more sayings from J. Paul Getty
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 75 views 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 wisdom & wit from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. 26 quotes from Emily Dickinson
Success is the child of audacity. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. 3 other wisdom & wit from Noel Coward
The best revenge is massive success. 10 views 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 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 views 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. 75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. 3 sayings 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 sayings from Jean Genet
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. 4 sayings from William Lloyd Garrison
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. 25 sayings from Orison Swett Marden
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. 15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
Applause waits on success. 96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. 30 more wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others. 6 quotes from Jules Renard
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. 24 more 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 sayings from George Burns
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. 21 quotes 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 views from W. C. Fields
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. 14 other 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 more quotes 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 views from Robert W. Service
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. 25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Nothing succeeds like success. 4 other views from Alexandre Dumas
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' 7 other 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 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. 6 other sayings 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 sayings from Charles Caleb Colton
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. 15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. 3 wisdom & wit from Paramahansa Yogananda
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. 96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. 4 other quotes from William J. H. Boetcker
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. 14 other quotes 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 more thoughts from Thomas A. Edison
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. 3 quotes 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 other quotes from George Washington
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other. 33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. 26 more quotes 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 views from Thomas A. Edison
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. 14 more quotes from Jessica Savitch
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. 16 more sayings from Havelock Ellis
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. 12 other thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. 3 other quotes from Robert Baden-Powell
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. 24 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 sayings from John Foster Dulles
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. 9 views from Howard Nemerov
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. 3 quotes 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 more sayings from Bertolt Brecht
I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came. 6 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Anna Pavlova