quotations about success
Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own!
TOMMY NEWBERRY
Success Is Not an Accident
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
ANNE SULLIVAN
letter regarding her work with Helen Keller, October 30, 1887
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD
The Success Principles
Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
101 Really Important Things You Already Know But Keep Forgetting
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Kingdom of Fear
Success,
The apple of ambition's eye;
The crooked prop of tyranny;
The wind that puffs the changeful sail;
That fills the tuneful pipe;
That gives a color to the pale,
A plumpness to the ripe;
Desire's counterpart,
That men most have at heart.
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE
"Success", Imogen and Other Poems
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
MARK TWAIN
attributed, Unlimited Power
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
SÉBASTIEN CHAMFORT
Maximes et pensées
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Pensées
I wrote a song about success, which I called "It Hasn't Happened Yet." Because success is never there. Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
WILLIAM SHATNER
Esquire, May 2012
The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Self-Improvement 101
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Tarr
Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.
DAVID J. LIEBERMAN
Instant Analysis
The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Success
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM
Grand Hotel
SUCCESS must first be created in mind. No matter what our vocation may be, we can generate thought force to carry us to the highest pinnacle of success.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Success", Human Life from Many Angles
A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Get the luck idea out of your head. There is such a thing as luck. But that is not what you are looking for. What you want is success. And there's no luck about that. It's just as certain as the corn crop to those who know how to raise it.
FRANK CRANE
"Ten Success Hunches", Four Minute Essays
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Stellar Moments in Human History
My problem is that I don't get the same exhilaration from success as I get depression from failure.
STEVE MARTIN
Time Magazine, August 24, 1987