Quotes About Success

Think small. Change your notion of "thinking big" to "thinking small and getting big things done.

Your value does not come from what you accomplish. Your worth as a human being is not determined by whether you win or not.

If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

They want to be victorious and effective on their own, rather than gaining through the shortcomings of others.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

The Kansas state motto, "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties.

I think part of your success lies in the shock of recognition- or as the Japanese might say, 'the unexpected recognition of the faithful "suchness" of very ordinary things'.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. —Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13, 2012

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.