The Of Success Quotes

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

With a sister, one can never fear that success will go to one's head.

Success is a process that never ends.

Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

There is no disinfectant like success.