Success Quotes - Page 4

Whatever you are by nature keep to it never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

Jacqueline Briskin

For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles de Montesquieu

Survival is triumph enough.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man however should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Albert Einstein

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

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.

Booker T. Washington

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records to outstrip our yesterdays by our today to do our work with more force than ever before.

Steward B. Johnson

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Logan Pearsall Smith

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T.S Eliot

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry Kissinger

The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

Anonymous

If you've had a good time playing the game you're a winner even if you lose.

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

Joe Knapp

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Frederick W. Robertson

Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Plodding wins the race.

Aesop

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

William J. H. Boetcker

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann von Goethe

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Robert W. Service

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Ramana Maharshi

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Anonymous

If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.

Napoléon Bonaparte

It takes time to be a success.

Anonymous

Actually I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.

If at first you don't succeed try try try again.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

The only way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.

William A. Ward

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.

Jerry Delia Femina

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Once I decide to do something I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock you jump over it walk around it crawl under it.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.

If you rest you rust.

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