Fortune befriends the bold.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day’s insolence.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.
We fall forward to succeed.
Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.
If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
