Quotes About Success

The bitch-goddess, as she is called, of Success, roamed, snarling and protective, round the half-humble, half-defiant Michaelis' heels, and intimidated Clifford completely: for he wanted to prostitute himself to the bitchgoddess, Success also, if only she would have him.

Keep going until something stops you, then keep going.

Hold firmly to your aspirations; tenacity breeds tenacity as success breeds success.

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

Si rese conto, ora, che la dea-cagna del successo, aveva due grandi appetiti: uno era la fame di adulazione, di lusinghe, di carezze e moine che le davano gli artisti e gli scrittori. Ma l'altro era più feroce, era fame di carne e di ossa. E la carne e le ossa per la dea-cagna del successo, erano forniti dagli uomini che facevano denaro nelle industrie.

Make money! Make it! Out of nowhere. Wring it out of the thin air! The last feat to be humanly proud of!

Clifford had never been primarily out for money, though he made it where he could, for money is the seal and stamp of success.

They want me in Lime Street on Monday week, mother, he cried, his eyes blazing, as he read the letter. Mrs Morel felt everything go silent inside her. ... It never occurred to him that she might be more hurt of his going away, than glad of his success.

For in the Land of the Free, the greatest delight of every man is in getting the better of the other man.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering—to personality and the ability to lead people.

That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel, to win.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?

Can any man possibly be a success who is paying for business advancement with stomach ulcers and heart trouble?