Success Quotes

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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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.

Bob Bennett (politician)

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Robert Collier (author)

You must act as if everything depended on your individual efforts. The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Edward Carpenter

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.

Eric Temple Bell

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

A word of caution: people will tell you that success can't buy you happiness. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking