Quotes about Success
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
— Ruth Gordon
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
— Charles Spurgeon
Luck is good planning, carefully executed.
— Anonymous
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
— Abraham Lincoln
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
— William Wordsworth
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
No one reaches a high position without daring.
— Publilius Syrus