quotations about success
It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.
DONALD TRUMP
Playboy, March 1990
Success is a moving target.
TIM WATCKINS
"What does success look like for Baylor football in 2017?", Scout, July 10, 2017
The highest and best sense in which a life is a success is within the reach of everyone. The successful life is a happy one, availing itself of the many advantages of personal culture, enjoying the sweetness and comfort of home, no matter how simple or even scanty the material furnishing may be. Above all money considerations, we may develop sterling, manly characters and have here and now the joy of heaven in our hearts and the life of heaven in our lives.
HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING
Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Up From Slavery
When things go well, you should be suspicious. When things go exceptionally well, start sniffing for the dog crap on the bottom of your shoe.
ROB THURMAN
Nightlife
What is success?
Is it do your own thing?
Or to join the rest
And if you truly believe it,
And try over and over again
Living in hopes
That someday you'll be in with the winners
BONNIE RAIT
"What Is Success?"
There are very few cases of overnight success. Most success cases--including rock bands who seem to explode out of nowhere--involve longer term persistence and commitment to an interest.
PATRICK COMBS
Major in Success
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
The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
CHARLES BUXTON
Notes of Thought
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 counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires a sorest need.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Success is counted sweetest"
Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
ECKHART TOLLE
The Power of Now
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD
The Success Principles
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
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, Unleash the Billionaire Within
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
MARK TWAIN
attributed, Unlimited Power
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained in sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"The Ladder of St. Augustine"
The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Success
Success occurs when your dreams get bigger than your excuses.
ANONYMOUS