Success Quotes
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw -
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James
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The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
Joseph Sobran -
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Thomas Dewar -
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
Anton Szandor LaVey -
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare -
Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.
Sarah Palin -
Every failure is a step to success.
William Whewell
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Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
Scott Stossel -
Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.
Javier Solana -
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker -
One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.
Rory McIlroy -
We want to undersell and overdeliver. We hopefully would be ensuring another period of sustained success.
Tom Werner
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An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.
William Crawford Williamson -
Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.
Brandon Marshall -
4 P’s to success: pressure, persistence, perseverance & prayer.
Steve Harvey -
The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.
Judy Smith -
Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.
Ali Banisadr -
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have.
Sharon Gless -
Overall the first round-robin was a success. The winners of Pool B will have their hands full next week facing rested Korea and Japan teams.
Bob DuPuy -
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt -
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Adrien Brody