951 private quotes tagged success

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” — George S. Patton

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“I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.” — Larry Ellison

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“The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.” — Ann Landers

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“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” — Johnny Carson

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“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” — Woody Allen

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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” — Mark Twain

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“Success and failure are equally disastrous.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.” — Tennessee Williams

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.” — Abdul Kalam

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“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?” — Brendan Francis

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“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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