Quotes About Success

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, "Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.

He rose without a friend, and sat down without an enemy.

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

When you win, nothing hurts.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.