Success Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

David R. Ellis

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Jules Renard

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

George Bernard Shaw

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Alexander Graham Bell

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Felix Frankfurter

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Glenn Beck

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

James Allen

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

John Linder

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Arthur C. Brooks

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

Francis Maude

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Edward de Bono

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Herbert Read

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Cyril Connolly

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Walter Cronkite

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Paul Wellstone

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

Alfred Hitchcock

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Daniel Berrigan

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Zig Ziglar

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Blanche Lincoln

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles de Montesquieu

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.