Top 100 His Success Quotes
#1. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Arthur Hailey
#3. You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.
Johnny Carson
#4. The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis De Sade
#5. Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
Edward De Bono
#6. That is the worst of Poirot. Order and Method are his gods. He goes so far as to attribute all his success to them.
Agatha Christie
#7. If there were a master of stupidity in this world,
I would really love to listen to his success story.
Toba Beta
#8. The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success. . . . If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble.
Stephen Kinzer
#9. The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.
Byron York
#10. Tipple sold his success much more effectively than he did. How to get excited about, take pride in something that came so naturally? It was like being honored for breathing.
Colson Whitehead
#11. I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.
Sharad Pawar
#12. It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
Arthur C. Danto
#13. Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
Harriet Walter
#14. The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Walter Besant
#15. All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk beside big Volkheimer back to the castle, down through the frozen trees, past the rooms of sleeping boys ranked like gold bars in strongrooms...
Anthony Doerr
#16. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus
#17. For those who talks about the perfection of god in making human ...
Its his success after billion years of experiments
out of millions of other useless creatures
Er.teji
#18. You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.
Henry Ford
#19. Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#20. The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
H.L. Mencken
#21. In our interview, Conan said something about the secret of his success: "Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice." And that's what I'm doing, because I had no choice.
Marc Maron
#22. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
#23. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Philip Danforth Armour
#24. What had his life meant? All his success, all the tournaments he'd won ... they were like dust and ashes. Meaningless. Without Gisela, his life was meaningless.
Melanie Dickerson
#25. Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.
John Dean
#26. Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience can do to the most closely held dreams. The point in your late twenties when you're grown up enough to realize that 'life is no longer wide open'.
Peter Ames Carlin
#27. A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.
Robert Musil
#28. He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.
Michael Braccia
#29. I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.
Nelly
#30. Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped me all the way through life. Their lessons are easy to assimilate."
Charlie Munger
#31. (Theodore) Roosevelt considered his experience with 'fellow ranchmen on what was then the frontier' to be 'the most educational asset' of his entire life, instrumental to his success in becoming president.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#32. There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
Pal Benko
#33. For it is written that if the wise man appears always stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.
Christopher Moore
#34. Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.
Byron York
#35. Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down.
Nelson Mandela
#36. It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'
Michael Faraday
#37. A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#39. His success in dealing with the strong egos of the men in his cabinet suggests that in the hands of a truly great politician the qualities we generally associate with decency and morality - kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy - can also be impressive political resources.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#40. I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
Lawrence Durrell
#41. ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.
Roy Orbison
#42. A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point , but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
Sri Aurobindo
#43. When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.
Barry Switzer
#45. A man should not measure his success in life by the type of work he does, or by the medals he has won, but by the impact he has had on those around him, especially his family."
-Salvador Ortiz to his son Lazaro
Mark McGinty
#46. In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.
Jules Verne
#47. For God himself the height of feeling free
Must have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me.
Robert Frost
#48. Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
John C. Maxwell
#49. Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life.
Oscar Wilde
#50. And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
Rube Goldberg
#51. My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
Tino Sehgal
#52. You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.
Michael Bloomberg
#53. Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Maxwell Maltz
#54. A truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success.
Gopichand Lagadapati
#55. He who destroys another person to succeed in life will have destruction awaiting him at the post of his success.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#56. Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
Seneca The Younger
#57. His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
Gautama Buddha
#58. He wished summer was over. At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see his grades, concrete proof of his success at something.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.
Evelyn Waugh
#60. Want and need are not the same things either. A want can be foregone. It is voluntary, a nice-to-have.
A need is required, a necessity. If he needed me, I'd be essential for his success, for his happiness.
Cynthia Sax
#61. There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#62. The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.
Mark Levin
#63. Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself.
Steve Waugh
#64. Referring to his success in engineering the appointment
Paul M. Barrett
#65. I have had a front row seat to observe Darren's success over the last few years and never fully knew the keys to his achievement. He has unselfishly revealed his secrets with The Compound Effect so that others can learn from his success. In my eyes, it is more valuable than gold!
Ron White
#66. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#68. The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
Clarence H. Burns
#69. 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
#70. Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Napoleon Hill
#72. Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Ludwig Von Mises
#73. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#74. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward Burgess Butler
#75. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.
Arthur Brisbane
#76. A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
Woodrow Wilson
#77. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#78. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
Ada Leverson
#79. Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.
Walter Cronkite
#80. William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and in his demonstration of the value of kindly virtues that not only ennoble but lead to success.
Grover Cleveland
#81. Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
Josh Billings
#82. What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.
Emma Goldman
#83. Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ... Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.
Laurie Beth Jones
#84. For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Alexander Pope
#85. He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.
Jeremy Collier
#86. The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is especially irritating.
Marcel Proust
#87. He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
Stephen R. Covey
#88. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
#89. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw
#90. The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'
Ayn Rand
#91. Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.
James Bryant Conant
#92. What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
Abraham Lincoln
#93. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer
Sol Stein
#94. Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in expectation of success.
Ernest Shackleton
#95. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller
#96. Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.
Alan Sugar
#97. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.
Auliq Ice
#98. The Prince is the only option to a better living. His arm is reliable and dependable. Get to Him, stay glued and remain on Top!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#99. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;
and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Jim Carrey
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