It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
– Henry Ward Beecher
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
– Samuel Smiles
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
– Anonymous
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
– Corrine Dewlow
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
– Machiavelli
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
– Eddie Cantor
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
– John Malkovich
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
– Gerald R. Ford
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
– John F. Kennedy
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
– Josiah Gilbert Holland
Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
– Alan Stewart Paton
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
– Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes-Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
– William S. Gilbert
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
– Tennessee Williams
Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
– Bernard Mannes Baruch
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
– James Gilmore Backus
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas Alva Edison
Many people chase after success. Others pursue money. But I think the happiest people on earth Are the one's who have found significance. The real question of life must be What has significance for you
– Unknown
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
– Charlotte Bronte
Mental toughness is essential to success.
– Vince Lombardi
Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
– Will Smith
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
– H. Ross Perot
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
– Scott Adams
