951 private quotes tagged success

“Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.” — Richard Branson

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“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.” — Ambrose Bierce

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

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“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” — George Washington

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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.” — Aeschylus

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“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.” — Mark Twain

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“I 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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“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There is no success without hardship.” — Sophocles

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“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” — Henry Ford

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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” — Samuel Butler

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“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.” — Confucius

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“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — George S. Patton

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“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” — William Feather

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“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” — Napoleon Hill

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“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” — Mark Twain

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“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” — Logan P. Smith

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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” — Thomas J. Watson

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