Success Quotes

“Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.”

“A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

“Concentration is the secret of srength.”

“To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.”

“Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.”

“The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.”

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

“The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.”

“Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.”

“The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.”

“A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.”

“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”

“All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.”

“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”

“Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.”

“Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.”

“All great successes are the triumph of persistence.”

“Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.”

“Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.”

“You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.”

“Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.”

“Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.”

“Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.”