Quotes About Success

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

It takes time to be a success.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

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 it on your own terms.