Top 100 First Success Quotes
#1. CITIZENS, we bring good news! In your kitchens, in your offices, on your factory floors - wherever you hear this broadcast, turn up the volume! The first success we have to report is that our Grass into Meat Campaign is a complete
Adam Johnson
#2. The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
Rob Brydon
#3. When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
Lauren Bacall
#4. Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.
Samuel Smiles
#5. I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
Natalie Dormer
#6. The first success of life is we find that life should live in what cause.
Khem Veasna
#7. Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
John Irving
#8. THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON'S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank who mugged him for a tuxedo.
Anthony Chapman
#9. If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc
#10. Everyone holds his or her own key to success and happiness. It's just that sometimes you have to test out a lot of wrong keys first to find the one that fits.
Brittany Burgunder
#11. Being first is no guarantee of success
Anonymous
#12. Hey, just be grateful I'm old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once ended up on Pluto. (Sebastian) Are you serious? (Channon) They're not kidding about it being the coldest planet. (Sebastian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.
Denis Hayes
#14. There is no success in this world without first conquering the battle within your mind.
Preston Ely
#15. I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.
Tamara De Lempicka
#16. My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.
Shelby Foote
#17. The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?
Hal Elrod
#18. Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.
Chuck Norris
#19. The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.
Robert G. Allen
#20. My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.
Nel Noddings
#21. What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!
John Di Lemme
#22. I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#23. I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
#24. LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.
Richard Branson
#25. My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
Raymond Loewy
#27. F you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
Bill Shankly
#28. If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.
Robert Kiyosaki
#29. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
Og Mandino
#30. The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell
#31. Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'
Martin Henderson
#32. The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius
#33. First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
Henry Maudslay
#34. Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living?
Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?
Maddy Malhotra
#35. I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
Giancarlo Esposito
#36. Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.
Richard Branson
#37. I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#38. When there is integrity, an entirety, a wholeness, in what you say and do, you are consciously resurrecting the incredibly powerful success mechanism you used instinctively from the time you first came to be.
Mike Hernacki
#39. Yes, I believe the greatest blessing any one can have is to be a failure, this is the first step towards the success,
Mary Ann Templeton
#40. Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
Roberto Cavalli
#41. I think up until '71 or '72, Herman's Hermits had our second and third Number One records in 1969 and 1970. You know, the first one was in 1964. It was just a question of the American success being so outrageous, that that attracted the most attention.
Peter Noone
#42. Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
Jeanne Moreau
#43. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus
#44. To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.
David Starr Jordan
#46. If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.
Bruce Fordyce
#47. Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
Terry Brooks
#48. I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.
Noel Fisher
#49. When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.
Auliq Ice
#50. Success is not about getting it right the first time but about not giving up even if it takes a lifetime of effort.
Pooja Ruprell
#51. Your level of success, in every area of your life, will always parallel your level of personal development. If you want Level 10 success in any area of your life, you must first develop yourself to be a Level 10 person in that area.
Hal Elrod
#53. The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
Iyanla Vanzant
#54. At first glance, the ball seemed to be an elegant success. However, re-evaluation would allow an observer to see more than a graceful party. Many well-thought plans highlighted what this really was: a marriage market.
Jettie Necole
#55. I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
Kirk Hammett
#56. Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.
Samael Aun Weor
#57. The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
Adolf Hitler
#58. I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
James Rothman
#59. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
Steve James
#60. Hold on hope and never lose it, keep your faith because that is the first step to success
Nourhan Mamdouh
#61. I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
Denzel Washington
#62. Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress.
Jason L. Riley
#63. Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,
Sheryl Sandberg
#64. We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
Gavin Rossdale
#65. We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.
Karl Popper
#66. The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.
Richard Sherman
#67. Abraham's servant prayed for success: "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham" (Gen. 24:12 NASB). This is the first time in Scripture that we read of someone asking God for specific guidance.
Gary L. Thomas
#68. The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.
Arnon Grunberg
#69. First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#70. Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.
Michael Schumacher
#71. If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.
John Kuypers
#72. If the first job one has in a given profession acts as a tuning fork for the career that follows, Frederick Thomas was attuned from the start to a pitch of the highest quality.
Vladimir Alexandrov
#73. No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
James Cash Penney
#74. Having a good belief system in yourself is so important for success and can help you in many ways. First thing a belief system accomplishes is that it builds your self-esteem. Knowledge
Brent R
#75. There are several paths to success; We are given multiple opportunities to achieve our potential throughout our lives. Some get there a little faster than others. But one thing is for sure; NO ONE gets there without first having a goal then taking action and LOTS of it!
Rachael Bermingham
#76. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.
Napoleon Hill
#77. Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
Thomas Carlyle
#78. Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.
Hal Elrod
#79. The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first
Mark Twain
#80. Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
Bill Walsh
#81. The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.
Will Smith
#82. One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. You can't enjoy sipping of success without first enduring failure's fire
Phillip Gary Smith
#84. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
#86. My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.
Anupam Kher
#87. I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
Roseanne Barr
#88. I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.
Thomas A. Edison
#89. Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.
Suzy Kassem
#90. Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.
Travis Bradberry
#91. The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.
Denis Waitley
#92. It's a mistake to act as though we're not created equal.
It's another mistake not to correct the first one.
Blaming others nurtures failure.
Helping others reaps a share of their success.
L. Anthony
#93. The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being longer occupied in the elaboration of pure mathematics, could turn his thoughts exclusively to the study of natural laws.
Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand
#94. Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.
Howard Rheingold
#95. The primary task for the executive targeting first 100 days success is to set out the right strategic priorities and stay focused on them.
Niamh O'Keeffe
#96. Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#97. Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
Charles Caleb Colton
#98. A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
Vanessa Carlton
#99. What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.
Charles M. Schwab
