quotations about success
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
BOB DYLAN
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Weekly World News, October 1, 1996
It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
SALVADOR DALI
Conversations with Dali
Success is a moving target.
TIM WATCKINS
"What does success look like for Baylor football in 2017?", Scout, July 10, 2017
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Tarr
Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.
DAVID J. LIEBERMAN
Instant Analysis
My problem is that I don't get the same exhilaration from success as I get depression from failure.
STEVE MARTIN
Time Magazine, August 24, 1987
A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Self-Improvement 101
Success is an easy road (when gained).
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM
Grand Hotel
SUCCESS must first be created in mind. No matter what our vocation may be, we can generate thought force to carry us to the highest pinnacle of success.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Success", Human Life from Many Angles
In Success few mornings frown;
For the youth, to view the town,
When morning came, with Sorrow went
Through statued park and street;
And they joined a gilded throng,
As it coldly moved along
Toward the temple built to Fortune,
Low to worship at her feet.
HENRY ABBEY
"The City of Success"
The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Success
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Success is somebody else's failure.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Dancing at the Edge of the World
Success depends less on the general superiority of one's intellectual powers, than on their peculiar adaptation to the work at hand.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
101 Really Important Things You Already Know But Keep Forgetting
Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
Confidence