Success Quotes
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The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.
Hal Urban
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We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger than each of us. A lot of people, even those who were not religious, were reverent and attributed the success to God. As we saw the artificial heart beat in Dr. Clark, the feeling was not aren't we great, but aren't we small.
William DeVries
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I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
Anton Szandor LaVey
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My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.
John Caudwell
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If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.
Scott Adams
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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Stephen Covey
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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
Aubrey Menen
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Some of you, your success has messed you up! You've lost your bite! You're not hungry anymore!
Eric Thomas
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Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.
Neneh Cherry
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The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
Anthony Brandt
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Unmarried women in their forties, with false teeth and tousled hair, aren't usually held in the highest esteem by our society. The feeling seemed to be that if I could be a success then anyone could!
Susan Boyle
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Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.
Jane Goldman
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Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it's unusual to have success and want to stay small.
Jason Blum
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There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord's children
Lorenzo Snow
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I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!
Eric Thomas
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Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
George Washington Carver
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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.
David J. Schwartz
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Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.
Keith Ferrazzi
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I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Maria Bartiromo
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I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.
James P. Gorman