What Is Success Quotes

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

The secret to my success is practice!

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

One more such victory and we are undone.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.