Quotes About Success

Is it still a victory if you don't get the credit?

The difference between success and failure in this life of ours is mostly hard work, so you must constantly work to try to improve yourself.

When I entered the service, the regulations stated that the object of all military training is "success in battle." This short sentence has been rewritten on three pages and I defy anyone to read it over three or more times and then explain what the object of military training is.

The definition of military training is success in battle. In my opinion that is the only objective of military training. It wouldn't make any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. I've believed that ever since I've been a Marine.

There are two ways to get to the top of a giant oak tree. You can sit on an acorn and wait. Or you can climb it.

been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was rediscovered in the 20th century as a literary masterpiece. Source: Wikipedia

And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished

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It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, - it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Pug thought, that in a trivial way was like the President's. Some people had it, some didn't. He himself had none of it. In the Navy the quality was not overly admired. The name for it was "grease." Men who possessed it had a way of climbing fast; they also had a way of relying upon it, till they got too greasy and slipped.

Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos.

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

Fear not, but be bold: A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. Odyssey vii. 50.

In this way, the Odyssey's hero embodies one of its central themes, which is that the capacity to defer satisfaction and endure suffering is as necessary for success as the ability to perform brilliant feats.

some day let them say of him: 'He is better by far than his father,' 480  as he comes in from the fighting

What greater glory attends a man, while he's alive, than what he wins with his racing feet and striving hands?

LeBron James

El pueblo me silba, pero yo me aplaudo en mi casa mientras contemplo cariñosamente las monedas en mi caja fuerte.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness.

Every step of the way, I made it a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job.

While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad, and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.