Quotes About Success

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.

I believe I have the attitude of a champion and a winner, and I'm not apologetic for it.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.

Attitude is altitude.

People who retain their childish attitudes will rarely be able to hold on to the success they may achieve through their talent.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this – nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution.

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

The objective of most corporate leaders is to use people to make a great company. My objective is to use the company to make great people. —Ralph C. Stayer

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

To change a failure into a success requires a change in perspective

What we love will either take us to greatness or to ruin

No monastery has been successful at producing enlightenment. It has been tried; there are no shortcuts.