Quotes About Success

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say, "I have done my best," then you are a success.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

Success is like a liberation, or the first phase of a love affair.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

He must really be a big success - even his mother-in-law admits it.

The only time you find success before work is in the dictionary.