Quotes About Success

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Successful people MAKE themselves do the things unsuccessful people will not do.

If a man has the will he can learn anything.

If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

No man is satisfied with his fortune, but every man is satisfied with his wit.

He had great faith in his own fortune. When planning anything he always felt in advance firmly convinced of success and fate smiled to him.

Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that end we could do nothing except write books and papers.

As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men.

Chance created the position; genius took advantage of it," says history.

even damn fools can accomplish something now and then.

Even the ancient mariner, with his wonderful tale, succeeded in stopping only one of three! No book is for everybody.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

A revolutionary uprising that spreads over a number of days can develop victoriously only in case it ascends step by step, and scores one success after another. A pause in its growth is dangerous; a prolonged marking of time, fatal. But even successes by themselves are not enough; the masses must know about them in time, and have time to understand their value. It is possible to let slip a victory at the very moment when it is within arm's reach. This has happened in history.