quotations about success
Success is somebody else's failure.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Dancing at the Edge of the World
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
A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
SMILEY BLANTON
Love or Perish
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD
The Success Principles
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "The Wisdom of Vince Lombardi", The Mirror, June 11, 2013
SUCCESS must first be created in mind. No matter what our vocation may be, we can generate thought force to carry us to the highest pinnacle of success.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Success", Human Life from Many Angles
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
SÉBASTIEN CHAMFORT
Maximes et pensées
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Stellar Moments in Human History
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 the child of Audacity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The Rise of Iskander
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
Success depends on one's general culture, on one's set of values, one's clarity of mind and vivacity. The thing to be most feared is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
Harper's, 1961
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 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
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
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
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Kingdom of Fear
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
JOSEPH ROUX
Meditations of a Parish Priest