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Quotes About Success

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais
The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.
~ Waite Hoyt
When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
~ Juliana Hatfield
Achievement is its own reward
~ David Lynch
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
~ Dennis Ritchie
I am made, crudely, for success.
~ Sylvia Plath
I owe all my success to stupidity.
~ Tom Monaghan
. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.
~ Kathy Lette
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
~ Horace
Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.
~ Julian Fellowes
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
~ Dennis Ritchie
There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
~ Barack Obama
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
~ Julian Fellowes
I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Success will (a.mel.io.rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.
~ Jon Jones
There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
~ Napoleon Hill
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
~ Eric Burdon
Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
~ George Crabbe
There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.
~ Judy Sheindlin
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
~ Patricia Ireland
You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
~ Zig Ziglar
It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do
~ Christine Baranski
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
~ Lord Acton