Quotes About Success

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.