....it is better to succeed with success than failure.
– George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
– Robert F. Bennett
A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.
– The Hitopadesa
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
– Albert Schweitzer
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
– Alec Waugh
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
– Bob Dylan
A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself.
– Mahabharata
A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key”
– Anuj Somany
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
– Robert Browning
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
– Otto von Bismark
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
– Author Unknown
A Soulution to Rubik's Cube is not a series of individual good guesses, each surmounting move has twelve to one odds against success. It is a series of perplexed movements or algorithms that form a coherent method of returning back to it's original (correct) state.
– Tom Zegan
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
Action is the foundational key to all success.
– Tony Robbins
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
– Dr. David M. Burns
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
– Dorthea Bragg
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
– Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
– Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
– Sydney Harris
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
– Helen Hayes
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
