Quotes About Success

Think about your future in a positive way and you will move towards your goals.

Your future is bright. You must go forward making use of all your strengths to overcome your weaknesses.

Empty of cosmos are they who hunger after righteousness. Already are the merciful spent. Extinct are the pure in heart. Governed are the meek and of Heaven earn similar disgust. Your society is a veneered barbarity. Ye are precocious primitives. Where is your success other than through hatred? There is no good understanding in your world.

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

I'll spread my wings, and I'll learn how to fly I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans—I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before…. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I am not designed to come second or third, I am designed to win.