3,028 quotes
There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.
Frank Carlucci
Politician · American · b. 1930
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley
Writer · American
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
Writer · French · 1885 – 1967
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
Elia Kazan
Director · American · 1909 – 2003
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost
Poet · American · 1874 – 1963
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda
Novelist · English
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.
Howard Schultz
Businessman · American · b. 1953
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
Poet · Greek
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Author · American · 1880 – 1968
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Willa Cather
Author · American · 1873 – 1947
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965
Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.
Carl Karcher
Businessman · American · 1917 – 2008
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."
Donald Rumsfeld
Politician · American · b. 1932
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Phyllis McGinley
Author · American · b. 1905
What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.
Joan Blades
Businessman · American
I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.
Guy Laliberte
Businessman · Canadian · b. 1959
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Pierre de Coubertin
Leader · French · 1863 – 1937
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
Inventor · American · 1876 – 1958
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
Les Brown
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger
Statesman · b. 1923
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer
Psychologist · American · b. 1940
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Economist · American · 1908 – 2006
You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.
James Larkin
Activist · Irish · 1875 – 1947
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
Clergyman · American · b. 1926
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer
Lawyer · American · 1916 – 1998
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
Playwright · American · 1923 – 2003
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
William J. H. Boetcker
Clergyman · American
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
Walter Ulbricht
Politician · German · 1893 – 1973
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
Writer · English · 1908 – 1999
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
Novelist · American · 1923 – 1999
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Lane Allen
Author · American · 1849 – 1925
You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.
Robert Conrad
Director · Polish · b. 1935
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
Niklaus Wirth
Scientist · Swiss · b. 1934
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
Writer · American · 1780 – 1842
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Novelist · American · 1819 – 1891
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan
Editor · American · 1882 – 1958
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Peter Marshall
Clergyman · Scottish · 1902 – 1949
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Daniel Libeskind
Architect · Polish · b. 1946
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
Prince Charles
Royalty · English · b. 1948
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch
Businessman · American · b. 1935
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike
Sociologist · American · 1912 – 2000
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napolean Hill
Author · American · 1883 – 1970
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
Critic · American · 1886 – 1963