Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
—Charles J. Givens (1941–98) American Self-Help Writer
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
—Paul Sweeney
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
—Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British Head of State
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–81) American Editor, Novelist
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be; and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist
Success is more attitude than aptitude.
—Unknown
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.
—Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American Playwright, Entrepreneur
Success is not something you get out of what you do.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
—Billie Holiday (1915–59) American Jazz Singer
You can never have real success till you meet the real person—YOU.
—Indian Proverb
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st American President
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
—Philip James Bailey (1816–1902) English Poet
I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.
—Jonathan Winters (b.1925) American Comedian, Film Personality, TV Personality
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Success has always been a great liar.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
—Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) American Painter
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don’t even know there is a ladder.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
—Michael Korda (b.1933) English-born Writer, Novelist
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
—Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
—Sloan Wilson (1920–2003) American Novelist, Writer
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 (1900–93) American Actress, Philanthropist
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
—Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
—Indian Proverb