Success Quotes

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I am a one success man.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.