For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
– Ethel Barrymore
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
– Cathleen Douglas
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
– Smiles
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
– Denis Watley
Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.
– Thomas Peters
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; a just man gains the reward of his virtue.
– The Hitopadesa
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
– Warren Bennis
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
– William Saroyan
Hard Work is to Success like vaccinations are to good health, if timely done.... the result is always the latter!!!!
– Siddharth Astir
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
– Bessie A. Stanley
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
– Albert Pike
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
– Elbert Hubbard
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
– Vaclav Havel
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
– Samuel Smiles
Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.
– Theodore Roosevelt
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil
– William James
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
– Bette Davis
I believe success comes with one formula,"Before you quit,try", inevitably the limit to try before you quit is infinite.
– Bongz Mbongeni Younsmus
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time.
– Herbert Bayard Swope
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
– Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
– Herbert B. Swope
