Success Quotes - Page 2

Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.

There is always room at the top.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Charles M. Schwab

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

George Bernard Shaw

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Phillips Brooks

When there is no feeling of accomplishment children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Theirs is not to reason why theirs is but to do or die.

Alfred

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

Success produces success just as money produces money.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Kenneth Boulding

If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say "I have done my best " then you are a success.

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

Bessie A. Stanley

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Success is the sweetest revenge.

Vanessa Williams

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments or publicity.

A woman who is loved always has success.

Success is not a doorway it's a staircase.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Marconi invented radio but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

If I do have some success I'd like to enjoy it for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

Jean de La Bruyère

The insight to see possible new paths the courage to try them the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.

Mary Parker Follett

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Success is a great healer.

Gertrude Atherton

All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

Oddly enough success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

There must be more to life than having everything!

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

If you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

One more such victory and we are undone.

Pyrrhus

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Brendan Francis

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Prince

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get.

Anonymous

I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.

Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.

Phyllis McGinley

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

Success has ruined many a man.

Benjamin Franklin

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Success has killed more men than bullets.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

Johann von Goethe

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