Quotes About Success

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.