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Success Quotes
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
- — John Wooden.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- — Thomas Edison (1847-1931).
It’s the job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.
- — J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
- — Jan McKeithen.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Genius will not. Education will not. Persistence and determination are omnipotent.
- — President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933).
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
- — George Carlin (1937- ).
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- — Woody Allen (1935- ).
Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
- — Paul J. Meyer.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- — Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890).
You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
- — Connie Mack (1862-1956).
One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
- — John McGraw (1873-1934).
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
- — Tommy Lasorda (1927- ).
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
- — Kirk Douglas (1916- ).
It's not how many times you fall down, it's how many times you get back up.
- — Anonymous.
It is not the strength of the man's muscles that beats the other man; it is the strength of the man's mind that over-came him.
- — Ricardo Quique.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- — Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
- — Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
- — David Brinkley (1920-2003).
You guys think I have an endless supply of whiffle dust that I shake around to solve all of your problems with. I've got news for ya. I'm all out of whiffle dust.
- — Joe Gardi, Head Coach of the Hofstra University football team.
Don't tell me how rough the seas are. Just get the ship in.
- — Joe Gardi, Head Coach of the Hofstra University football team.
Only those who push too far, see how far they can go.
- —Unknown.
The only limits on us are the ones we set on ourselves.
- — Manuel Carrasquillo.
Thoughtfulness affects success more than age and hard work.
- — Poye Poye.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
- — Charles O. Finley.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
- — English Proverb.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- — Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990).
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
- — President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.
- — President Harry S Truman (1884-1972).
Many a false step is taken by standing still.
- — Arnold Glasow.
Go into situations expecting nothing and you always come out getting something better than you had ever expected.
- —Unknown.
Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
- — Ayn Rand (1905-1982).
When a distinguished but elderly statesman states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- — Arthur C. Clarke (1917- ).
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right.
- — Henry Ford (1863-1947).
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- — Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968).
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
- — Chinese Proverb.
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
- — George Burns (1896-1996).
The greatest victory is a victory won without fighting.
- —Unknown.
Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.
- — Audre Lorde (1934-1992).
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time. I owe him my best.
- — Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999).
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
- — Lou Brock (1939- ).
Good is not good enough when better is expected.
- — Lou Lamoriello.
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
- — Alonzo Newton Benn.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- — President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- — Napoleon (1769-1821).
How can you expect success 100 percent of the time if you don't always give 100 percent?
- — "ABC"
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- — Steve Prefontaine.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- — Thomas Edison (1847-1931).
If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way you were told.
- —Unknown.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
- — Henry Ford (1863-1947).
The bumps in the road just make the ride more fun.
- — Jorj Wager.
Don't think about failure. Think about the chances you miss when you dont even try.
- —Unknown.
If you work at the parts the whole will be a success.
- —Unknown.
The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
- —Unknown.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
- — Marian Anderson (1902-1993).
The more they tell me I can't the more determined I am to do it.
- —Unknown.
People try just as hard doing something right as they do something wrong.
- — Kelly L. Johnson.
To succeed, all you need is the knowhow, the will, and the ignorance
- —Unknown.
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
- — Goethe (1749-1832).
True success is the undeniable truth that we have proved ourselves.
- — Joe Luppino-Esposito.
What's so bad about winning a losing battle as long as you're ahead of everyone else?
- — Cherith Dorn.
Winners are losers that got lucky.
- — Jeremy Smallwood.
The greatest risk is the one not taken.
- —Unknown.
It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail.
- —Unknown.
You know what I think about success? It sucks too much cess.
- — Eminem (1972- ).
One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man but as an instrument of destiny.
- —Unknown.
If you say no to everything nothing will change.
- —Unknown.
Nothing recedes like success.
- — Walter Winchell (1897-1972).
Failure is not an option.
- — "Apollo 13"
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
- — Timothy McMahon.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
- — Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945).
Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- — President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).
One's determination will lead to others success.
- — Haran Alal.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it.
- — W.C. Fields (1879-1946).
We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
- — A.A. Milne (1882-1956).
How do you measure success? To laugh often, and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best inin others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a redeemed social condition, or a job well done; to know even one other life has breathed because you lived this is to have succeeded.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
He who never fell never climbed.
- —Unknown.
Man errs as long as he strives.
- — Goethe (1749-1832).
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.
- — Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969).
If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is "work," Y is "play," and Z is "keep your mouth shut."
- — Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
Success is more attitude then aptitude.
- —Unknown.
There are three ways a man can be ruined: women, gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.
- — Pope John XXIII (1881-1963).
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
- — John Ruskin (1819-1900).
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
- — E. Joseph Cossman.
I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
- — President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
There's always room at the top.
- — Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852).
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
- — Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944).
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- — Milton Berle (1908-2002).
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
- — Jim Kaat (1938- ).
Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
- — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
Try not. Do, or do not. There is no "try."
- — "Star Wars"
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- — Richard Bach.
Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
- — Don Shula.
If you stop trying now, then you'll never know what could have come of it in the future.
- — A. Nelson.
Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.
- —Unknown.
The further behind I get, the bigger behind I become.
- — Chris Holbert.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how good you look.
- — David Lee Roth.
The harder you train, the harder it is to give up.
- — Vince Lombardi (1913-1970).
The key to success is sincerity, and if you can fake that you can do anything.
- —Unknown.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
- — President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- — Confucius (551-479 B.C.).
Success is not the destination, its the journey.
- —Unknown.
Success is never final; and failure never fatal.
- —Unknown.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- —Unknown.
Try not to be a person of success but a person of value.
- — Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
I haven't failed; I've found ten thousand ways that don't work.
- —Unknown.
Assurance is two-thirds success.
- — Proverb.
There are never any problems, only solutions.
- — James Barry (1971- ).
Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly.
- — Joshua Dool.
When the goal is in sight, all your physical pain disappears, and your mental determination shall carry you the rest of the way.
- — Trey Patty.
Perfection is the greatest bore.
- — Emily Hawkins.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
- — Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922).
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
- — Thomas Edison (1847-1931).
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and date the prom queen.
- — "The Rock"
A winner is a dreamer who never quits.
- — Jenni.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.
- — Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987).
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is, "Try to please everybody."
- — Herbery Bayard Swope (1882-1958).
This is worse than a crime, it's a blunder
C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.- — Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838).
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
- — Dr. Henry Kissinger (1923- ).
Almost is never close enough.
- — Jordan Finley.
I've been the piece of straw on the back of one too many camels.
- — Cherith Dorn.
When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
- — President George Washington (1732-1799).
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
- — President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is always an orphan.
- — Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944).