Success Quotes - Page 5

If you don't quit and don't cheat and don't run home when trouble arrives you can only win.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.

Sylvester Stallone

I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoléon Bonaparte

If a man be self-controlled truthful wise and resolute is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

The Panchatantra

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

John Hays Hammond

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.

If you can't accept losing you can't win.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Thomas Henry Huxley

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Cardinal de Retz

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

You can imprison a man but not an idea. You can exile a man but not an idea. You can kill a man but not an idea.

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

There is no point at which you can say "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

Katherine Dunham

I am not afraid of the pen or the scaffold or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization a mystery of the individual soul.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Since when do grown men and women who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership " require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

Felicia Lamport

The lesser evil is also evil.

Naomi Mitchison

The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners good breeding and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal.

Ida White Parker

I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet have you lost your mind?

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Madame de Stael

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them and are energetic persevering and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Walter J. Johnston

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding and eternity looms ahead?

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart a gentleness of the spirit.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Albert Einstein

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

Landrum P. Leavell

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

W Somerset Maugham

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues but they never make it they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

Cookie Lavagetto

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

James A. Worsham

It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.

If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third best horse and win.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Excellence in any pursuit is the late ripe fruit of toil.

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Lane Allen

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

J. C. F. von Schiller

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

Spanish Proverb

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Anonymous

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.

George Horace Lorimer

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

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