Success Quotes
“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
“No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.”
-- Henry A. Kissinger
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
-- Swami Sivananda
“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”
-- Samuel Smiles
“I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”
-- Gordon Ramsay
“I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.”
-- Patrick Stewart
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”
-- Tony Robbins
“My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.”
-- Arlen Specter
“The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?”
-- Larry Flynt
“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.”
-- Sarah Caldwell