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
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
– Charles Horton Cooley
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
– M. Shawn Covey
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
– Leonard Bernstein
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
– Oscar Wilde
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
– Frances Watkins Harper
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.
– Bharavi
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
– Dr. A. B. Meldrum
