Quotes About Success

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't go very far.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.