Success quotes

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
They can because they think they can.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
A. Branson Alcott
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Jospeph Addison
Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

HeThe man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be donenry W. Longfellow
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.
C. V. White
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

"I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."

"Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Famous Life Quotes of Abraham Lincoln:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Famous Life Quotes of Mark Twain:

"I have never let schooling interfere with my education."

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Famous Life Quotes of Winston Churchill:

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
Famous Life Quotes of Mother Teresa:

"Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough."
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."


Famous Life Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi:

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Famous Life Quotes of Henry Ford:

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Famous Life Quotes of Pablo Picasso:

"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
Famous Life Quotes of Socrates:

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have, comes from virtue."

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Famous Life Quotes of Maya Angelou:

"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers."

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unplanted by formal education."

"Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues."
Famous Life Quotes of The Bible:

"Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up."

"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools."
Famous Life Quotes of Bruce Lee:

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

"Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be reality."

"Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation."

"There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and, thus, free ourselves from responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instruments of a higher power - God, history, fate, nation or humanity."

"Absorb what is useful, disregard the rest."
Famous Life Quotes of Sigmund Freud:

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself."

"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what direct his conduct in the world."

Famous Life Quotes of Leonardo da Vinci:

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."
Famous Life Quotes of Miles Davis:

"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."

"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

"Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself."

"It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."
Famous Life Quotes of Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions."
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."