Quotes on Success
- Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value. – Albert Einstein
- Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. – Norman R. Augustine
- Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. – Henry Drummond
- They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel. – Carol Buchner
- Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. – Norman R. Augustine
- Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. – Unknown
- Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. – Henry Ward Beecher
- A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. – Arthur Golden
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
- Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Francis Bacon
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. – Jacob Bronowski
- It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. - Vince Lombardi
- One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. – Marie Currie
- Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. – George Eliot
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
- A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
- The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. – William James
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
- After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. – Italian Proverb
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
- What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? – Robert Schuller
- We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow. – B.J. Palmer
- The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
- Confucius
- What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you. – Wayne Dyer
- Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going. – Kenneth Blanchard
- Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm Forbes
- Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. – Cherie Carter-Scott
- Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. - R. Duvall
- I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. - Mario Cuomo
- The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. – Benjamin Mays
- Victory belongs to the most persevering. – Napoleon
- If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. – Ralph Bunche
- I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. – Christopher Reeve
- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Anonymous
- The real contest is always between what you’ve done and what you’re capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. – Geoffrey Gaberino
- Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts. – Sir Winston Churchill
- 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. -Vince Lambardi
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
- What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike
- The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl S. Buck
- Successful: coming about, taking place or turning out as hoped for. -Webster’s
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill
- Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – General George Patton
- It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Seneca
- The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
- Robert L. Schwartz
- According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway. - M. Sainte-Lague
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
- You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. - Sam Ewig
- The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. – Captain J.A. Hatfield
- Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success. – Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
- It’s never too late to be who you might have been. – George Elliot
- Talk does not cook rice. – Chinese Proverb
- Rule your mind or it will rule you. – Horace
- It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water. – Ben Franklin
- Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Hala
- Attach yourself to your passion, but not to your pain. Adversity is your best friend on the path to success. – Unknown
- A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. – Sidney Greenberg
- As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. – Paul Shane Spear
- To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen. – Unknown
- A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
- Richard Nixon
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. – Colin Powell
- I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. – Talleyrand
- The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open. – Unknown
- Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. – Helen Keller
- Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake. – Victor Hugo
- ANTICIPATION: Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. – Benjamin Franklin
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
- Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers – not their minds.
- Unknown
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Truth fears no trial. – Proverb
- If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It’s about them. – Jack Welch
- Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. – Kim Lyons
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. – Sandra Carey
- Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Anonymous
- If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George B. Shaw, 1856 – 1950
- How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. – David Norris
- Never let a problem to be solved ecome more important than a person to be loved. – Barbara Johnson
- Character cannot be developed in ase and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self. – Aristotle
- One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
- Henry Ford, 1863 – 1947
- Success is your dreams with work clothes on… – Unknown
- The purpose of life is a life of purpose – Robert Byrne
- Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. – (On an American plaque)
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one. – Unknown
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach
- The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller
- Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Tim Notke
- Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ralph Arbitelle
- The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. – Rosabeth Moss Cantor
- I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller
- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
- Roosevelt
- Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
- Beverly Sills
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osborn
- If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe.
- John Maxwell
- If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. – David Ambrose
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- FEAR: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
- There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. – Buck Rodgers
- The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best. – Colin Powell
- He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. – Philip Massinger
- If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. – Mother Teresa
- A good laugh is sunshine in a house. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S Truman
- Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. – J.C. Penny
- Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Charles Lindbergh
- To bring one’s self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
- Thomas A. Buckner
- Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work. – Booker T. Washington
- Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. – George Eliot
- You must do the very thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- A competitive world has two possibilities for you: you can lose or, if you want to win, you can change. – Lester C. Thurow
- True success is obeying God. - John Maxwell
- Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? – Frank Scully
- There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it. - Monta Crane
- 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 while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
- All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell
- I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: try to please everybody. – Mr. Herbert Bayard Swope
- The secret of success is consistency of purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli
- Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
- St. Francis De Sales
- Sometimes our best is simply not enough…. We have to do what is required.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
- Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. – John Wooden
- The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. – Benjamin Disraeli
- Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility… in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have… is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael Korda
- What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
- HP Liddon
- Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility… in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have… is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael Korda
- What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. – HP Liddon
- I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones; and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived. – B. D. Gulledge
- The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations get into the shell… And when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl – And it takes faith and love to do it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
- GOALS: It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee
- CURIOSITY: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein
- DEDICATION: The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. - Cecil B. DeMille
- HONOR: The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. - Rod Steiger
- Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
- Plato
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. - Samuel Johnson
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller
- Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. - Benjamin Franklin
- He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. – Anita DeFrantz
- Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey
- It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin
- The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill
- Happiness is giving back a little more than you received. Peace is accepting what has been offered with thanks. – Ralph Arbitelle
- It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. – Roy Disney
- It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. – Arnold Bennett
- The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance. – Bruno Bettelheim
- None of the secrets of success will work unless you do. – Unknown
- Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese
- Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it that you can. – Danny Kaye
- A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other people the convictions and the will to carry on. – Walter Lippmann
- You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
- John Bunyan
- There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty. The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself. – Proverbs 11:24,25
- A leader is one who see more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see. – Leroy Eims
- You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; You ought to keep going and try to find something better to do. – David Packard
- Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
- He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. – Samuel Johnson
- There is a price to pray to grow. Commitment is the price. – Ed Cole
- It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw
- Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller
- The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won’t have time to envy the man above him.
- Henrietta Mears
