Quotes About Success

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

God's vision for your ministry, like the one He prepares for a church, will cause you to grow by demanding that you change, sharpen your skills and participate in situations in which your only hope of success is enabling His Spirit to guide you and empower you.

It is absolutely necessary to be effective in the digital space, though this effort alone will not spell outreach success.

What would success look like if the church were to be comprised of true followers of Christ?

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.… Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful…that's what matters to me.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.