#Success Quotes

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”

“The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.”

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

“All is well ended, if the suit be won.”

“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.”

“Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.”

“Enthusiasm is the engine of success.”

“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“If there is a good will, there is great way.”

“Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit”

“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.”

“The spirit of a youthThat means to be of note, begins betimes.”

“I came, saw, and overcame.”

“So get the start of the majestic worldAnd bear the palm alone.”

“Faint heart never won fair maid.”

“For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.”

“The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.”

“I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.”

“He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.”

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”

“No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.”

“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”

“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.”