How To Be A Success Quotes

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

Attain the unattainable.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.

You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.