Quotes about Success

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

The Northern press, as a whole, did not discourage these claims; a portion of it always magnified rebel success and belittled ours, while another portion, most sincerely earnest in their desire for the preservation of the Union and the overwhelming success of the Federal armies, would nevertheless generally express dissatisfaction with whatever victories were gained because they

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.