1,154 Quotes Regarding Success


Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan.
Charles P. Boyle

Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertold Brecht

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
Richard H. Brien

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.
M.H. Alderson

First must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed.
Bunyan

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Herbert N. Casson

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Cicero

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by thelove of glory.
Cicero

We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.
Jerome Cohen

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Cossman

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we areonly sitting on our own bottom.
Michel de Montaigne

Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montainge

Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented. Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Thomas R. Dewar

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli