Success

"I believe success holds different meanings for each individual. However, one form of success, in my view, is when an individual can live the life they desire freely, following the path they have chosen. … Don’t let anything hinder you from reaching your goals and dreams."

"'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,— We'll deserve it."

"Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation."

"Champions aren't made in gyms, champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"Success isn't about being perfect, it's about being brave enough to try, even when you're scared. **"

"Success isn't about the destination, it's about the journey. **"

"Don't be afraid to ask for help. We all need a hand sometimes, and that's okay.**"

"Success is not about how much you achieve, but about how much you inspire. **"

"Success is not about being perfect, it's about being persistent **"

"Success is not wholly free from its hypocrisies. Often it comes to us disguised ; often we pursue the shadow of it while the substance is with us. Many have achieved success who deemed their lives failures; many failures have been made by those who regard their lives successful. It is altogether as men measure success; whether in wealth, virtue, fame, fashion, or wickedness. Aspiration leading to effort though attended by seeming failure, is sometimes success, while effortless success may be failure; for one carries with it improvement, development, increase of strength, the other weakness and decay."

"Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown."

"I don't think that success has got anything to do with money — money for me isn't a way of keeping the score, so that's what it isn't."

"The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it can never possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments—success."

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition... But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."

"Sometimes when I am alone in my beautiful apartments, brooding over these things and nursing my loneliness, I say to myself: "There are cases when success is a tragedy." There are moments when I regret my whole career, when my very success seems to be a mistake. I think that I was born for a life of intellectual interest. I was certainly brought up for one. The day when that accident turned my mind from college to business seems to be the most unfortunate day in my life. I think that I should be much happier as a scientist or writer, perhaps. I should then be in my natural element, and if I were doomed to loneliness I should have comforts to which I am now a stranger. That's the way I feel every time I pass the abandoned old building of the City College. The business world contains plenty of successful men who have no brains. Why, then, should I ascribe my triumph to special ability?"

"I didn't think that working hard and wanting something that's out of your control would be that bothersome to people. It was just really disappointing for me."

"If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. If we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward."

"What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world."

"There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves."

"Nothing comes easy. Nothing is given to you. Whatever you do, you've got to work for it and earn it. Whatever reward you get you've go to know that you've had your input into that success. There's no substitute for hard work. And if you want to be well known or well liked, you have to put yourself out for people."

"Success always demands a greater effort."

"仁者先難而後獲，可謂仁矣。"

"It takes twenty years to make an overnight."

"To rank the effort above the prize may be called love."

"Success are hardwork, perseverance, learning and love what you are doing."

"Cyrus Adriel"

"Success is the best view comes after the hardest climb."

"Success is walking a long road of failure and rejection with hope and perseverance."

"Success is overcoming your fear without surrendering."

"Success is the fruit of failure and hardwork."

"Nearest the king, nearest the gallows."

"There is an element of failure in all success."

"I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks."

"Success is fucking up on your own terms."

"If you believe you're a success, crikey, I should think it will come up and get you by the...tail."

"We cannot say what brings us success. We can only pin down what blocks or obliterates success. Eliminate the downside, the thinking errors, and the upside will take care of itself. This is all we need to know."

"" Success isn't about fame, is about trying and being persistent with others" Naomi Dela Peña"

"" Success and victory is unpredictable" Naomi Dela Peña"

"" Mistakes can occur, but by looking forward to it, these failures will change over time" Naomi Dela Peña"

"" Working smart plus hard equals to success" Naomi Dela Peña"

"" In success, mistakes and accidents are not the failure, but to the point of not trying is the real failure" Naomi Dela Peña"

"I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind."

"What do I think of success? It sucks. Too much press; I'm stressed."

"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible."

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

"Nothing recedes like success."

"To do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success."

"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."

"Everyone knows how compromised the idea of bureaucracy as a meritocratic system is. The first criterion of loyalty to any organization is therefore complicity. Career advancement is not based on merit but on a willingness to play along with the fiction that career advancement is based on merit, or with the fiction that rules and regulations apply to everyone equally, when in fact they are often deployed as an instrument of arbitrary personal power. ... As whole societies have come to represent themselves as giant credentialized meritocracies, rather than as systems of predatory extraction, we bustle about, trying to curry favor by pretending we actually believe it to be true."

"Somebody said it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it."

"My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion."

"'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again."

"No wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice...p. 55"

"No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health. Many of the causes of ill health are subject to mastery and control. These, in the main are: a. Overeating of foods not conducive to health. b. Wrong habits of thought... c. Wrong use of, and over indulgence in sex. d. Lack of proper physical exercise e. An inadequate supply of fresh air, due to improper breathing.... The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success..."

"Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation. p. 87... Sons and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn... is often fatal to success... There is no substitute for honesty... there is NO hope for the person who is dishonest p.88..."

"You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. p. 173... Doubting Thomases scoffed scornfully when Henry Ford tried out his first crudely built automobile on the streets of Detroit... Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. p. 173"

"Building alibis with which to explain away failure is a national pastime. The habit is as old as the human race, and is fatal to success! Why do people cling to their pet alibis? The answer is obvious. They defend their alibis because THEY CREATE them! A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child...Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit. Habits are difficult to break, especially when they provide justification for something we do. Plato had this truth in mind when he said, The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. ...In parting, I would remind you that "Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision! p. 173"

"No weapon formed against you will have any success, and you will condemn any tongue that rises up against you in the judgment."

"If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure."

"For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive."

"“Just act like you have maximum security clearance,” Sebastian said. “That, in a nutshell, is the secret of success and the best advice I can give you.”"

"The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed. So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them on top."

"Capitalist-private property relations are the source of class inequalities, which is the primary factor in my being a member of a class that bears all the burdens of society without enjoying its advantages. Under the influence of illegitimate-capitalist values, I was pursuing the alleviation of social-economic hardship through individual advancement. This is a wholly inadequate remedy to social problems because it doesn’t challenge the fundamental injustice of class-exploitation and class-oppression, which are responsible for creating the socio-economic ills in the first place. Unaware of my class interest, I was perpetuating my own oppression by engaging in competitive capitalist practices that ensure the smooth functioning of the system as the exploiting minority profits in more ways than one off the division and disunity engendered by competition, so prevalent amongst the exploited. Look around: competition, euphemistically called “individuality,” permeates and is systematically promoted to the masses of people while the corporate conglomerations and Fortune 500 are busy “merging and monopolizing.”"

"The secret to success is the willingness to serve without aspiring for rewards."

"Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, “Lay it not too much to heart.” Let them adopt the maxim, “Better luck next time”; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves."

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

"Achieving success is an unquantifiable notion – indeed, success carries with it an aura of money and power, and things like that, which – certainly for me – would be detrimental."

"Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever."

"I've had marvellous and incredible luck, and devoted parents, sisters, friends, and teachers. What more can one ask? These things contribute enormously. Probably the major part of one's success is due to these factors."

"History shows us that when we become success-dominated, we lose sight of our real reasons for living."

"Food is the origin of success."

"Heaven, when it sent me into the world, did not give me a soul suited to the air of courts. I do not find in myself the virtues necessary to succeed, and make my fortune there. My chief talent is to be frank and sincere."

"If you want to succeed in investments, start early and try hard and keep doing it. All success comes that way, by and large."

"Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might be the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of matériel and supplies?"

"If you don't have that sense of national unity, then it's very hard for a country to succeed."

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

"Perioderna av framgång är mer riskfyllda än andra har jag alltid tyckt. Går allting helt enligt ritningarna riskerar man att farten blir allt för hög. Projekten enorma, och självförtroendet väl stort. Är tiderna goda finns alltid alternativ. Då finns risk att man väljer fel. I dåliga tider är det däremot inte särskilt svårt att inse vad som behöver göras."

"Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for."

"Fortunate people seldom mend their ways, for when good luck crowns their misdeeds with success they think it is because they are right."

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood: who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

"It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself."

"‘Since tyrants by the sale of human life Heap luxuries to their sensualism, and fame To their wide-wasting and insatiate pride, Success has sanctioned to a credulous world The ruin, the disgrace, the woe of war."

"I'm on the road to success, I strive to be the best. I never settle for less, if I'm broke I can't rest."

"Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds."

"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one."

"It is held that one fulfils his whole duty when he is industrious in his business or vocation, observing also the decencies of domestic, civil, and religious life. But activity of this kind stirs only the surface of our being, leaving what is most divine to starve; and when it is made the one important thing, men lose sense for what is high and holy, and become commonplace, mechanical, and hard. Science is valuable for them as a means to comfort and wealth; morality, as an aid to success; religion, as an agent of social order. In their eyes those who devote themselves to ideal aims and ends are as foolish as the alchemists, since the only real world is that of business and politics, or of business simply, since politics is business."

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."

"Success makes some crimes honorable."

"Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful."

"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."

"...he's got money ... and he's good looking, — and therefore he'll be a success."

"I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference."

"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out."

"The gentleman knows that whatever is imperfect and unrefined does not deserve praise. ... He makes his eyes not want to see what is not right, makes his ears not want to hear what is not right, makes his mouth not want to speak what is not right, and makes his heart not want to deliberate over what is not right. ... For this reason, power and profit cannot sway him, the masses cannot shift him, and nothing in the world can shake him."

"One whose intentions and thoughts are cultivated will disregard wealth and nobility. One whose greatest concern is for the Way and righteousness will take lightly kings and dukes. It is simply that when one examines oneself on the inside, external goods carry little weight. A saying goes, "The gentleman makes things his servants. The petty man is servant to things.""

"From the Three Dynasties down to the present day it has been like this. The good and honest people are ignored, while spineless flatterers are advanced."

"Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout."

"That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit."

"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."

"We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours."

"They never fail who die In a great cause."

"Be it jewel or toy, Not the prize gives the joy, But the striving to win the prize."

"These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines, — in the dark."

"Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on."

"Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?"

"One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going."

"Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up."

"Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, ne'er dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing."

"Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed."

"Rien ne réussit comme le succès."

"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."

"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door."

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

"If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

"One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success."

"Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes."

"If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or trust me, you haven't a chance."

"Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance."

"Die That ist alles, nichts der Ruhm."

"Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliert * * * aber er gewinnt auch."

"Ha sempre dimostrato l'esperienza, e lo dimostra la ragione, che mai succedono bene le cose che dipendono da molti."

"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."

"Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree."

"Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci."

"Quid te exempta juvat spinis e pluribus una."

"Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; "Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till naught remain.""

"When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past?"

"Il n'y a au monde que deux manières de s'élever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbécilitè des autres."

"Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir à point."

"Facile est ventis dare vela secundis, Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes, Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa Materies niteat."

"Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superæ sibi vindicant potestates."

"In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti."

"The virtue lies In the struggle, not the prize."

"J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage."

"Le succès de la plupart des choses dépend de savoir combien il faut de temps pour réussir."

"How far high failure overleaps the bound Of low successes."

"Aut non tentaris, aut perfice."

"Acer et ad palmæ per se cursurus honores, Si tamen horteris fortius ibit equus."

"A man can't be hid. He may be a pedler in the mountains, but the world will find him out to make him a king of finance. He may be carrying cabbages from Long Island, when the world will demand that he shall run the railways of a continent. He may be a groceryman on the canal, when the country shall come to him and put him in his career of usefulness. So that there comes a time finally when all the green barrels of petroleum in the land suggest but two names and one great company."

"He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound."

"Successus improborum plures allicit."

"Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est."

"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application resolve."

"The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won."

"Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?"

"In medio spatio mediocria firma locantur."

"Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south."

"Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un métier qui peu avance."

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."

"Honesta quædam scelera successus facit."

"Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square."

"Such a nature, Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon."

"Didst thou never hear That things ill-got had ever bad success?"

"To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first."

"Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone."

"A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On."

"Have I caught my heav'nly jewel."

"Who shootes at the midday Sunne, though he be sure, he shall never hit the marke; yet as sure he is, he shall shoot higher than who ayms but at a bush."

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."

"There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!"

"Attain the unattainable."

"You might have painted that picture, I might have written that song; Not ours, but another's the triumph, 'Tis done and well done — so 'long!"

"People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?"

"Every successful person always struggles"

"Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light."

"(He) set his heart upon the goal, Not on the prize."

"Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done."

"Others may sing the song, Others may right the wrong."

"There will people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame, but if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going you'll look around and you'll know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

"The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along."

"I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!"

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."

"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

"But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods."

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

"There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."