1,154 Quotes Regarding Success


If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller

One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
Mitt Romney

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Johnny Depp

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Napoleon Hill

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
Bo Bennett

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius