SUCCESS QUOTES IX

quotations about success

It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, February 5, 1712

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Success too often sanctions the worst and the wildest schemes of human ambition.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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The successful man is the one whose images correspond most closely to reality, because then his actions will lead to the results which he imagines. A man's failures depend upon the fact that his images do not correspond to reality, whether he is dealing with marriage, politics, business, or the horse races.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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Just and noble minds rejoice in other men's success.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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The certainty of succeeding makes the road easy.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


It must be admitted that the pleasure of a long-sought, ardently desired success, dreamed of by night and toiled for by day, is, probably, as complete as anything this side of heaven.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


Human success is a quotation from overhead.

CHARLES H. PARKHURST

"The Patern in the Mount"

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The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh

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There are two kinds of success, or rather two kinds of ability displayed in the achievement of success. There is, first, the success either in big things or small things which comes to the man who has in him the natural power to do what no one else can do, and what no amount of training, no perseverance or will power, will enable any ordinary man to do. This success, of course, like every other kind of success, may be on a very big scale or on a small scale. The quality which the man possesses may be that which enables him to run a hundred yards in nine and three-fifths seconds, or to play ten separate games of chess at the same time blindfolded, or to add five columns of figures at once without effort, or to write the "Ode to a Grecian Urn," or to deliver the Gettysburg speech, or to show the ability of Frederick at Leuthen or Nelson at Trafalgar. No amount of training of body or mind would enable any good ordinary man to perform any one of these feats. Of course the proper performance of each implies much previous study or training, but in no one of them is success to be attained save by the altogether exceptional man who has in him the something additional which the ordinary man does not have. This is the most striking kind of success, and it can be attained only by the man who has in him the quality which separates him in kind no less than in degree from his fellows. But much the commoner type of success in every walk of life and in every species of effort is that which comes to the man who differs from his fellows not by the kind of quality which he possesses but by the degree of development which he has given that quality. This kind of success is open to a large number of persons, if only they seriously determine to achieve it. It is the kind of success which is open to the average man of sound body and fair mind, who has no remarkable mental or physical attributes, but who gets just as much as possible in the way of work out of the aptitudes that he does possess. It is the only kind of success that is open to most of us. Yet some of the greatest successes in history have been those of this second class--when I call it second class I am not running it down in the least, I am merely pointing out that it differs in kind from the first class. To the average man it is probably more useful to study this second type of success than to study the first. From the study of the first he can learn inspiration, he can get uplift and lofty enthusiasm. From the study of the second he can, if he chooses, find out how to win a similar success himself.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

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Success demands singleness of purpose.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

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Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

FELIX G. ROHATYN

Dealings: A Political and Financial Life

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Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

ROBERT BONTINE CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM

Success and Other Sketches

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Success is a magnet that draws many followers.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality. There are very few bona fide overnight success stories. It just doesn't work that way. Success appears to happen overnight because we all see stories in newspapers and on TV about previously unknown people who have suddenly become famous. But consider a sequoia tree that has been growing for several hundred years. Just because a television crew one day decides to do a story about that tree doesn't mean it didn't exist before.

DONALD TRUMP

How to Get Rich


Your intention sets the universe in motion. The universe flows in the direction of your intention, and so it is important to be clear on your exact intention in any situation. If you are absolutely clear as to your intent, your subconscious success mechanism will support you in getting there. Most people encounter problems in creating the kind of life they want because they have not clearly determined where they want to go, or visualized what it is going to look like when they get there. Those who lead purposeful, successful lives do so because they have set up in their mind a clear picture of what they want to create in their lives.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Beyond Positive Thinking

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If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible.

FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP

Success: A Course in Moral Instruction

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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success -- yours or his.

FRANKLIN P. JONES

Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

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According to the most common idea among men, he that makes the most money is the most successful. The standard so often adopted to measure or weigh everything by a money value is a false one. Money has its uses. The lack of it is hard to bear. But they are not the highest and best powers that are called forth in the acquisition of money. To amass a fortune is not necessarily the highest success. To miss a fortune is not of necessity a dismal failure. Poverty and scanty means are in no way or sense desirable, but we would make very emphatic and press upon the attention of youth everywhere that man's success or happiness is not measured by his bank account.

HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


If you would revenge yourself on those who have slighted you, BE SUCCESSFUL; it is a bitter satire on their want of judgment; to show that you can do without them, a galling wound to the self-love of proud, inflated people; but you must reckon on their hatred, as they will never forgive you.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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