Quotes about Success

We look on childhood and youth as those "times of life" rich with possibility only because there still seem to remain so many paths open to a successful outcome. Each year that passes, however, increases the competitive value of making strategically correct decisions. The errors of childhood can be more easily amended than those of adulthood.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.