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.”

-- John Steinbeck

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

-- Havelock Ellis

“There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.”

-- Sandra Bernhard

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

-- George S. Patton

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

-- Epictetus

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

-- Ellen Glasgow

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”

-- Paul Getty

“There's no abiding success without commitment.”

-- Tony Robbins

“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.”

-- Sparky Anderson

“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”

-- Anne Rice