Quotes About Success

Growth in moral virtue is a project of monumental proportions. "Disciplining and reforming desires" sounds so simple. But how many really succeed? The words of Our Lord come to mind here: "Narrow the way and few there are who find it" (see Mt 7:14). What we are suggesting here is that friendship is one of the most critical natural helps to walking the straight and narrow path.

if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.

A successful life is a string of successful days

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

There is no doubt of course that poverty develops much that is precious in life, not talent or genius alone, but valuable qualities of character. But it does vastly more harm than good. Whenever a man succeeds in spite of poverty we recognize the wonder and eagerly give it acclaim. But the failures resulting from poverty we pass over. Indeed, they are so common as to be almost uninteresting. We speak of them by the bulk.

The success of today may be the disaster of tomorrow and of other days to be. The failure of today may be an everlasting success.

My family has never suggested to me that my identity or value to them depended on my station in life. I knew that they did not consider me any more or less valuable because I held some political office. They valued me as a husband and father, whether or not I won an election. Nor did they regard holding office on Capitol Hill or in the Missouri statehouse as the epitome of success. Quite the contrary, my family had endured numerous personal sacrifices because of my public positions.

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his success.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.