Quotes About Success

The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.

I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it's what I now expect for myself.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

The key to success in life is getting up early.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Genuine effort is success.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.

Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.