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
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