Success Quotes - Page 7

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

Walter Chrysler

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

General Douglas MacArthur

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

Edwin Way Teale

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

Edward B. Butler

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Sir Edward Appleton

Do it big or stay in bed.

No matter how much a man can do no matter how engaging his personality may be he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Sir Archibald Mclndoe

Whatever your grade or position if you know how and when to speak and when to remain silent your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

Ralph C. Smedley

That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.

Mary Field Belenky

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Jennifer Capriati

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

L.M. Montgomery

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel that one must deliberate then act must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Since everything is in our heads we better not lose them.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts " probably lost.

Martina Navratilova

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.

David V. A. Ambrose

Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.

The real difference between men is energy.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find a need and fill it.

Ruth Stafford Peale

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods ignoring principles is sure to have trouble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work learning from failure.

General Colin L. Powell

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.

Tennessee Williams

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.

William Maxwell Aitken

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.

Benjamin Franklin

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it greater understanding growing compassion came to me.

Catharine Marshall

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

Remember the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.

Macrina Wiederkehr

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured.

The ability to form friendships to make people believe in you and trust you is one of the few absolutely fundamental qualities of success. Selling buying negotiating are so much smoother and easier when the parties enjoy each other's confidence. The young man who can make friends quickly will find that he will glide instead of stumble through life.

John J. McGuirk

Networking is an enrichment program not an entitlement program.

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Charles Baudouin

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Harry S. Truman

Many people have the ambition to succeed they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job there is no need to master themselves.

The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

A. Jackson King

Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

George R. Kirkpatrick

Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out.

Anonymous

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team.

Benjamin F. Fairless

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah show up."

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

Success is that old ABC-Ability Breaks and Courage.

Charles Luckman

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

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