Quotes About Success

Although a marriage undertaken on one side to acquire a beautiful and patrician property, and on the other to obtain money and protection and a comfortable life, should certainly not have succeeded beyond the terms for which it was tacitly undertaken, it had been, had become successful.

It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success always demands a greater effort.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

Enter upon your inheritance, accept your responsibilities...Don't take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

The more morally impossible a military operation, the better chance it will have of success if it is physically practicable. Surprise—that sovereign talisman of War—springs from the doing of the exact thing the enemy is certain will never be tried.

SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL; FAILURE IS NOT FATAL; IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS.

Their national psychology is such that the bigger the Idea the more wholeheartedly and obstinately do they throw themselves into making it a success. It is an admirable characteristic provided the Idea is good.

Now mark me well—it is provided in the essence of things, that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.' —WALT WHITMAN, The Open Road.

Success is Ability to go from One Failure to Another. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue.

You cannot afford to indulge even for the shortest period of time in resting on your oars. You must continually drive the vast machine forward at its utmost speed. To lose momentum is not merely to stop, but to fall.

meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same.

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

He fixed his eyes on my fingers while I played to him, then said suddenly, My God; I work at it till I sweat and yet get no success - while you, my friend, simply play at it! Yes, said I, but I too had to work in order that I might be exempt from work now.

In other words, to be successful, American "Fascism" had to take on American form. Or to cite a dictum usually attributed to Huey Long: "When America gets Fascism it will call it Anti-Fascism.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

Se di tanto in tanto non hai degli insuccessi, è segno che non stai facendo nulla di davvero innovativo.

By consciously seeking enlightenment, you will progress quickly, receiving the rewards of ever-greater enjoyment, peace, success, good fortune, and well-being.

Los perdedores se consideran listos, les indigna que los menos dotados lleguen más lejos que ellos. Creen que el talento vale más que la persistencia.

For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong." "Well spoken, Gobryas!" exclaimed