The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
ROBERT BROWNING, prologue, Apollo and the Fates
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Dream Play
The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.
ICE-T, Men's Health, Dec. 2005
If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
SIGMUND FREUD, A Childhood Recollection
Success had ruined many a man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
Success is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
BARBRA STREISAND, quoted in Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes
The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
BRIAN TRACY, Focal Point
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
ANTHONY ROBBINS, quoted in 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead
Today we define success by publicity and bank accounts. But that's not really success at all. Don't believe the hype. Success is ephemeral. You have to define it yourself.
CHRIS NOTH, Men's Health, Dec. 2005
Take the time to understand what's behind your success. It's the best way to ensure it will continue.
STUART R. LEVINE, O Magazine, Jan. 2007
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, David Bailey's Good-bye Baby and Amen
There's room at the top I'm telling you still
but first you must learn how to smile as you kill
if you want to be like the folks on the hill.
JOHN LENNON, Working Class Hero
The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA, quoted in 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck In a Moment and Can't Get Out Of It!
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his.
FRANKLIN P. JONES, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM, Grand Hotel
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Isham Reavis, Nov. 5, 1855
Success demands paranoia.
JOSEPH FINDER, Paranoia
Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit,
Clouds big with rain hang low,
So good men humbly bear success,
Nor overweening grow.
BHARTRHARI, "The Path of Altruism"
They must try who would succeed.
THEOCRITUS, "The Two Ladies of Syracuse"
