Quotes About Success

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

To many fame comes too late.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning ftiends has meant the most.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?