1,154 Quotes Regarding Success


Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux

Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
Goethe

Man errs as long as he strives.
Goethe

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Adolf Hitler

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Richard Bach

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Horace

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
David Hume

There ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexibl eof passions.
David Hume

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
Italian Proverb

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
William James

We have seen too much success to have become obsessed with failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson

We grow small trying to be great.
E. Stanley Jones