quotations about success
Success is partly a matter of luck, and may be a question of cowardice. Just as cowards come back from wartime alive, so they may get rich and sleek and influential.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Balancing Acts
Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
STEVE JOBS
interview, MSNBC, May 25, 2006
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
BOB DYLAN
Weekly World News, October 1, 1996
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them.
TIMOTHY TITCOMB
Lessons in Life
Get the luck idea out of your head. There is such a thing as luck. But that is not what you are looking for. What you want is success. And there's no luck about that. It's just as certain as the corn crop to those who know how to raise it.
FRANK CRANE
"Ten Success Hunches", Four Minute Essays
The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Self-Improvement 101
Success is the child of Audacity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The Rise of Iskander
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD
The Success Principles
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Kingdom of Fear
You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Unlimited Power: a Black Choice
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Tigers & Ice
Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Unlimited Power: A Black Choice
It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.
RICK REMENDER
Black Science, No. 1, November 2013
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM
Grand Hotel
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Stellar Moments in Human History
It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
JOSEPH ROUX
Meditations of a Parish Priest
Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
101 Really Important Things You Already Know But Keep Forgetting