quotations about success
I wrote a song about success, which I called "It Hasn't Happened Yet." Because success is never there. Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
WILLIAM SHATNER
Esquire, May 2012
No matter whether failure came
A thousand different times,
For one brief moment of success,
Life rang its golden chimes.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"I Am Content"
It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Tarr
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
SMILEY BLANTON
Love or Perish
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.
DAVID J. LIEBERMAN
Instant Analysis
My problem is that I don't get the same exhilaration from success as I get depression from failure.
STEVE MARTIN
Time Magazine, August 24, 1987
A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Success is an easy road (when gained).
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM
Grand Hotel
Success is somebody else's failure.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Dancing at the Edge of the World
In Success few mornings frown;
For the youth, to view the town,
When morning came, with Sorrow went
Through statued park and street;
And they joined a gilded throng,
As it coldly moved along
Toward the temple built to Fortune,
Low to worship at her feet.
HENRY ABBEY
"The City of Success"
The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Self-Improvement 101
Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
101 Really Important Things You Already Know But Keep Forgetting
The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Success
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD
The Success Principles
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise.
ANONYMOUS
A common tendency is to set an almost unreachable standard for success while simultaneously creating a standard for failure that is easy to meet. As a result, you may routinely feel a lot less successful than is necessary.
TOMMY NEWBERRY
Success Is Not an Accident