Success Quotes
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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.
O. Henry
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In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
E. O. Wilson
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
Amy Chua
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I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.
Johnny Mathis
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I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
Gene Hackman
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A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Peter Drucker
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The free market for mobile devices and wireless service has been a dramatic success.
Ajit Pai
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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.
Bill O'Brien
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Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you.
William Faulkner
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The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.
Chris Prentiss
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What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.
Vivienne Ming
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Due to success I started losing friends.
Ace Hood
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Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.
Li Shufu
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It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.
Gerald M. Loeb
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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
Rick Pitino
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The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
Ryan Phillippe
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I haven't been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of 'Big Hero's' success. I'm just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that's come after that has been secondary to the initial response.
Ryan Potter
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In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
David Landes
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Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.
Brian Tracy
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If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.
Scott Adams
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Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.
Gabriel Mann