Success Quotes - Page 3

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Self-knowledge is the foundation of real success.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

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.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

It's difficult when people seem to dislike you only because you've found success with something.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

I can't analyse the secret of success. In my style of working, I stick to the basics and make stories revolving around the hero.

Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.