Success Quotes
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.”
-- Herbert Spencer
“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
-- Ross Perot
“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.”
-- Elias Canetti
“The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.”
-- Ricky Williams
“The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.”
-- Sammy Davis, Jr.
“More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.”
-- Scott Walker