Quotes
Quotes about Success
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. â¢Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. â¢Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. â¢Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. â¢Indira Gandhi I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. â¢Douglas Adams There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. â¢William Bennett The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. â¢Robert Frost When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. â¢Maksim Gorky One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. â¢Elbert Hubbard It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. â¢Jerome K Jerome One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. â¢Bertrand Russell Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. â¢Lily Tomlin Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. â¢Robert Benchley Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. â¢Thomas Edison Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. â¢Sam Ewing Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. â¢David McCullough Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. â¢John G. Pollard Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. â¢Mark Twain
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
