Quotes About Success

Every dog must have his day.

The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

He did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.