Success Quotes

“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.”

-- Orison Swett Marden

“Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.”

-- Sarah Bernhardt

“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”

-- Plato

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”

-- John Wooden

“They succeed, because they think they can.”

-- Virgil

“There is no success without hardship.”

-- Sophocles

“The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.”

-- Vicente Fox

“Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.”

-- Roger Staubach

“No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.”

-- Florence Scovel Shinn

“I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.”

-- Ben Okri