Quotes About Success

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz

A person may be smaller in success than in defeat; it depends on what he is trying to do

There will always be folks who will talk, and the better you do in the world the more bad things they will say of you. Back there in the settlement you remember how the dogs used to run out and bark at our wagons? Yes, ma. Did the wagons stop? No, ma. Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going some place you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

I never saw a man get superior so fast.

There are two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish , they start out and do it. They become what they want to or they get what they want. They will it.

Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

any man who could concentrate for as much as three minutes on any given problem could rule the world.

Sometimes I think it is not the money, but the game. It isn't the winning so much as it is to play the cards right.

There's two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish, they start out and do it. They become what they want to or get what they want. They will it.

There is no reason why anyone cannot get an education if he or she wants it badly enough and is persistent.

He carried himself with that impatient arrogance toward others that is often possessed by men who have succeeded by their own efforts, and too easily.

successful people, like Morgan and Rockefeller, just had a better grasp of social tendencies than unsuccessful people

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should make the most of it.

Twenty-five Percent Slam

You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do,—for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.