The Of Success Quotes

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

Success is what sells.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

Practice structure determines success.

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all the success that's happened (for me).

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.