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Quotes About Success

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
~ Robert Burton
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
~ Robert Vaughn
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
~ Saint Basil
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
~ Samuel Smiles
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
~ Sigmund Freud
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
~ Thomas Malory
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
~ Max Lerner
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
~ Jim Rohn
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
~ Albert Einstein
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
~ Ann Landers
Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.
~ Bear Bryant
Goal achievement is hero's work.
~ Bill Vaughan
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
~ Carlos Santana
Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.
~ Russell Conwell
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
~ Samuel Smiles
We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
~ Tacitus