Quotes About Success

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.

She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.

If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.

If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Somebodys said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius, which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.