Success
618 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 590 from other voices.
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- How long should you try? Until.
- How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
- How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Human life consists of a succession of small events, each of which is comparatively unimportant, and yet the happiness and success of every man depends upon the manner in which these small events are dealt with.
- I agree that the measure of success is not merchandise but character.
- I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
- I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line.
- I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
- I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
- I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
- 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.
- I don’t believe there are any free lunches. There is no easy ride to success. The journey is what it is and you have to accept that if you want to be a successful entrepreneur.
- I don’t care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing.
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
- I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
- I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
- I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage.
- I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.James A. GarfieldSourced
- I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident.
- I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working.
- I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making some one else more useful and more happy.
- 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.Cornel WestSourced
- I start early, and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.Lionel MessiCommonly attributed
- I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
- I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.
- I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night.Ray KrocCommonly attributed
- If, at the end of our life, we can be thankful for it, realizing that we have made the best possible use of it, we have achieved real success.
- If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
- If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made myself so merely by labour.
- If I persist long enough I will win.
- If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
- If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success.
- If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.
- If there exists a secret of success, it lies, perhaps, in concentration more than in any other single element.
- If there is a single key to success, it is the trait of being able to make things happen in the world – willfulness, determination, execution focus, not giving up when you hit a roadblock, the ability to solve any problem that comes your way, and self-belief.