Quotations about Success

• As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure. — Mahatma Gandhi


• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. — Marcel Proust


• If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. — Mary Kay Ash


• It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept nothing but the best, you very often get it. — W. Somerset Maugham


• In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. — Henry David Thoreau


• It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


• Success, remember, is the reward of toil. — Sophocles


• Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. — L. Thomas Holdcroft


• By the work one knows the workman. — Jean de La Fontaine


• It is the nature of man to err, but only the fool perseveres in error. — Cicero


• Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau


• Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. — Claude Pepper


• Your life is what your thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius


• The obscure we eventually see. The completely obvious takes longer. — Edward R. Murrow



• A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up. — Jack Herbert


• Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. — John Wooden


• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. — John Wooden


• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. — Vince Lombardi


• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most do. — Dale Carnegie


• You may be disappointed if you fail. You are doomed if you don't try. — Beverly Sills


• Intelligence is like a river-- the deeper it flows, the less noise it makes. — Anonymous


• You can't have an island of excellence in a sea of indifference. — Dr. Ernest Boyer, Carnegie Foundation


• When you really know someone, you can't hate him. — Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead


• One who takes small steps goes fast. -Zen


• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. — Cicero


• You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. — James Allen


• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. — Margaret Thatcher


• I always view problems as opportunites in work clothes. — Henry Kaiser


• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. — Dick Vermeil


• Good is not good where better is expected. — Thomas Fuller


• The way I see it , if you want a rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. — Dolly Parton


• Rumors are the sauce of a dry life. — Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead


• The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. — Edward Simmons


• Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson


• The harder you work, the luckier you get. — Gary Player, golfer


• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. — Goldsmith


• Don't be afraid to take a big step is one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George


• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ronald E. Osborn


• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. — John Wooden


• People will be just about as happy as they make their minds up to be. — Abraham Lincoln


• Paralyze resistance with persistence. — Woody Hayes


• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. — Oliver Wendell Holmes


• When one door is shut, another one opened. — Miguel De Cervantes


• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt


• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill


• I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it is going to rain, it will. — Clint Eastwood


• The only time you can't afford to fail is the last time you try. — Charles Kettering


• Two men look through the same bars; one sees mud and one the stars. — Frederick Langbridge


• Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. — Napoleon Hill


• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. — Walter Gagehot




• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. — John F. Kennedy


• There is a better way for everything. Find it. — Thomas Edison


• There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. — C.M. Ward


• There is no substitute for hard work. — Thomas Edison


• Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. — St. Francis De Sales


• Well done is better than well said. — Ben Franklin


• One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared. -Merlin Olsen