Quotes About Success

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find in on your own terms.

Do what you love, the money will follow.

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success.

I love the challenge.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

In my business, you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.