Success Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Joshua Lederberg

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Bertrand Russell

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

Ron Lewis

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Orison Swett Marden

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Condon

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don Marquis

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Benjamin Franklin

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Marquis de Sade

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Charles de Secondat

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Donna Tartt

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda