What Is Success Quotes

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records to outstrip our yesterdays by our today to do our work with more force than ever before.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

If you've had a good time playing the game you're a winner even if you lose.

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."

We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Before you can win a game you have to not lose it.

Football games aren't won they're lost.

Success is a journey not a destination.

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.

It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.

We're still not where we're going but we're not where we were.

'Tis the motive exalts the action 'Tis the doing and not the deed.

I think that wherever your journey takes you there are new gods waiting there with divine patience-and laughter.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want it won't satisfy.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom you do everything to gain some right and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Now that I'm here where am I?

Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

The closer one gets to the top the more one finds there is no "top."

Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.

The minute you think you've got it made disaster is just around the corner.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing you can't ever stop.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

Oddly enough success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

There must be more to life than having everything!

If you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments or publicity.

Success is not a doorway it's a staircase.

Marconi invented radio but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

If I do have some success I'd like to enjoy it for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

The insight to see possible new paths the courage to try them the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.