Quotes About Success

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents [the road is open to the talented], without distinction of birth or fortune.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

Napoléon ubicumque felix.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.î

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.