quotations about success
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
SMILEY BLANTON
Love or Perish
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Success
A common tendency is to set an almost unreachable standard for success while simultaneously creating a standard for failure that is easy to meet. As a result, you may routinely feel a lot less successful than is necessary.
TOMMY NEWBERRY
Success Is Not an Accident
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 depends on one's general culture, on one's set of values, one's clarity of mind and vivacity. The thing to be most feared is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
Harper's, 1961
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
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
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL
Sunday Times Magazine, September 16, 1973
Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise.
ANONYMOUS