Quotes About Success

I think Alfred Edmond from Black Enterprise said it best. He suggests you ask yourself, "Am I using money to buy things or accomplish things?" Buying things refers to purchases like a new car or a plasma television. Accomplishing things means spending money on opportunities that move you forward—like homeownership or an education.

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Perhaps that's the first Survival Lesson we need to remember if we are to keep going: serious opposition is a measure of success. Women have been trained to measure our effectiveness in love and approval, not in conflict and resistance.

Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.

she seemed both proud and scared that I was where she had once wished to be.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

A strong urge to succeed coupled with strong opposition to what it takes to succeed is the surest way to failure.

Achieving honest success is not as hard as some things, some which impede it.

Failure has often happened to me but I have never failed.

Good and few opportunities are obvious, better and more opportunities accompany challenges while the best and most opportunities come in the form of challenges.

Opportunity thrives best in adversity. They are simultaneous, not adversary.

Success isn't about attaining some external target, it is about living up to what you are, and you can't without the truth.

Success isn't about reaching certain heights, it's about reaching certain depths.

Take action and you may be shocked you are the best.

The core force behind high achievers is a strong feeling that they easily can.

The only special thing about successful people is that they think and act in a special way.

The successful use the power they think they have while the rest, resting desire the power they think they don't have.

Those who don't value the truth don't really value success because the truth is the foundation of success.

Truth is the power used to reach success.

We seek success to avoid failure but avoiding failure reduces the chances of success. So, seek success to avoid failure, don't avoid failure to seek success. Because if you avoid failure you will fail to avoid failure.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Falling Doesn't Make You a Failure, Staying Down Does.

A day of fortune is like a harvest-day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe.