I couldn't wait for success, so I went on ahead without it.
– Jonathan Winters
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
– John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
– Bill Cosby
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this dream a great dream.
– John A. Appleman
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
– John Alan Appleman
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
– Henry David Thoreau
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
– George Burns
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live he life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
– John Fellows Akers
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
– G. K. Chesterton
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
– Derek Curtis Bok
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabar
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
– Calvin Coolidge
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"
– Richard M. DeVos
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one
– Richard M. Devos
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.
– Dicky Barrett
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
– Florence Scovel Shinn
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.
If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.
– John Van de Kamp
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
– Saint Francis de Sales
