Success Quotes
“Nothing succeeds like success.”
“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”
-- Booker T. Washington
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
-- Napoleon Hill
“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.”
-- Ethel Waters
“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”
-- Dale Turner
“I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.”
-- Idris Elba
“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”
-- Ashley Montagu
“With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.”
-- Katherine Jenkins