Quotes and Sayings about Success
Albert Einstein: If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z, where X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.
Alexandre Dumas: Nothing succeeds like success.
Anna Pavlova: As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by dint of hard work.
Anonymous: Success is not the ability to get along with people, it’s the ability to get ahead of them.
Anonymous: Enthusiasm is more important than any other commodity. It will find solutions when none are apparent, and it will achieve success where none is thought possible.
Anonymous: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Anonymous: If at first you don’t succeed, try reading the instructions.
Arthur Rubinstein: Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Bette Midler: The worst part of having success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
Bob Brown: Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
Christopher Morley: There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Don Marquis: The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
George Bernard Shaw: Success covers many blunders.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Irving Berlin: The toughest thing about being a success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
John Churton Collins: Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
Johnny Carson: [Success] means that you have, as performers will call it, “f*** you” money. . . . All that means is that I don’t have to do what I don’t want to do.
Josh Billings: Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Jules Renard: The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
Kenneth Boulding: Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kin Hubbard: There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man that didn’t tell you all about it?
Logan Pearsall Smith: How can they say my life isn’t a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Margot Naylor: If every successful man needs a woman behind him, every successful woman needs at least three men.
Mark Twain: All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Martin Amis: . . . I’ve always gone along with the view that, first, the surest guarantee of sexual success is sexual success (you can’t have one without the other and you can’t have the other without the one), and, second, that the trappings of sexual success are only fleetingly distinguishable from sexual success itself.
Mary Wilson Little: The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Napoleon Bonaparte: We may stop ourselves when going up, never when going down.
Oscar Wilde: Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man can build a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Rosalind Russell: Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rudolph Bing: I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.
Ted Turner: Either lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Vidal Sassoon: The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
Vince Lombardi: There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.
W. Somerset Maugham: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
Walter Cronkite: I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
William Makepeace Thackeray: We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
William Pickens: . . . the man who succeeds is never conceded the right to fail.
William Saroyan: You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
Woody Allen: Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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