"Famous Success Quotes Lead Us To
Bigger And Better Things"

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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