Quotes About Success

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.

The "C" students run the world.

You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.