Quotes
Quotes about Success
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problemsâeven football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Stress - Kids Feel It Too (an article) Social scientists say living in an affluent neighborhood has little to do with whether your child will be resilient, happy and successful. They are finding that when you locate a resilient child, you'll also find a caring adult that has guided her. More stress quotes coming soon. If you have a quote, saying or proverb about stress that you would like to submit to this site please fill-in the "Submit a Quote" form below. -Henry Kissinger.
'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. â¢George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. â¢Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. â¢William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. â¢Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. â¢Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. â¢Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. â¢Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. â¢Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. â¢James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. â¢Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. â¢Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. â¢Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? â¢Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. â¢Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Nothing fails like success. â¢Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? â¢Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. â¢Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. â¢Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. â¢Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. â¢Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. â¢J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. â¢Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. â¢Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. â¢Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Success is the child of audacity.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
