Quotes About Success

I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.

As for a limit to one's labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

The only reason men fail is because of broken focus

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.