QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SUCCESS 5
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell (1937-, American Secretary of State)
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Wolin L. Powell
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price (1927, American opera singer)
By his deeds we know a man.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Some people want to be praised for the rest of their lives for what they did well for one day.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Success in the end erases all the mistakes along the way.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Success makes a fool seem wise.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
Your ancestor's glory should not prevent you from winning your own.
Serbian Proverb
Talking is easy, action difficult.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
Dan Quayle (1947-, American politician, vice-president)
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982, Russian philosopher, author, "Atlas Shrugged")
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
Diana Rankin
On doing what you want to do
Marie Beynon Ray
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Donald Riggs
That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
Time, patience, and perseverance will accomplish all things. To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson (1920-1989, American boxer)
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American industrialist, philanthropist, founder Exxon)
The secret to success is to do common things uncommonly well.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American industrialist, philanthropist, founder Exxon)
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
To be successful, you don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, "Certainly I can!" -- and get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
Pete Rose (1942-, American baseball player, manager)
Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many people you brought with you.
Wil Rose
Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.
Charles B. Rouss
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Joseph Roux (1834-1905, French priest, writer)
Success doesn't suck.
Darius Rucker (1966-, American musician, singer, songwriter, writer)
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can't find them, then make them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula (1930-, American football coach)
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?
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.
Goldstein S. Truism
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Donald Rumsfeld (1932-, American Secretary of Defense, 2000-present)
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French aviator, writer)
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
David Sarnoff (1891-1971, Belarus-born American entrepreneur)
The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon (1928-, British-born American business executive)
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
The secret of success is to find the need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve the problem.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
The man who has done his best has done everything.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
David J. Schwartz (American trainer, author of "The Magic of Thinking Big")
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter D. Scott
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
Edgar A. Shoaff
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870, American author)
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
Ralph C. Smedley
They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904, Scottish author)
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith (American clergyman)
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
Success, remember, is the reward of toil.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
There is no success without hardship.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.
David Spangler
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
Konstantin Stanislavisky (1863-1968, Russian actor, theatre director, teacher)
We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968, American author)
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin (1939-, American comedienne)
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002, American businessman, author, founder of Combined Insurance Companies)
Success is achieved by those who try and ask.
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002, American businessman, author, founder of Combined Insurance Companies)
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Barbara Streisand (1942-, American singer, actress, director)
Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from before I made it. I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to take to reach success.
Joseph Sugarman (American businessman)
Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.
Fran Tarkenton (1940-, American football player, businessman, corporate consultant, author)
I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
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