Success Quotes
“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
“I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.”
-- Hugh Laurie
“You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.”
-- Carlos Ghosn
“I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.”
-- NeNe Leakes
“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”
-- William James
“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.”
-- Tom Petty
“I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.”
-- Bear Bryant
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
-- Wayne Gretzky
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”
-- Henry Ford
“Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.”
-- Bo Bennett
“The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.”
-- John Maynard Keynes