Success Quotes

“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.”

-- Jonathan Kozol

“Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.”

-- Michael Flatley

“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”

-- Tennessee Williams

“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.”

-- Bo Bennett

“One fails forward toward success.”

-- Charles Kettering

“If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.”

-- Mitt Romney

“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”

-- Paul J. Meyer

“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

“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.”

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?”

-- Kin Hubbard