Top 100 Little Success Quotes
#1. We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
Rob Lowe
#2. When you've had a little success, magazines are a lot less apt to use that phrase, 'Not for us.
Stephen King
#3. I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be. Now that we've had a little success, I can afford to drink wine.
Tom DeLonge
#4. He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.
Stephen King
#6. Moving forward from where you are to where you want and you are actually there is a little success that needs to be celebrated.
Osunsakin Adewale
#7. All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.
Margaret Mitchell
#8. All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I'm having damn little success at that."
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Robin Hobb
#9. There is very little success where there is very little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
#10. Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.
Nathan Lowell
#11. The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#12. Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
Maya Angelou
#13. There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
#14. Persistence and prayer: there can be little success in life living one without the other.
Clara Freeman
#15. 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
#16. In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
Dan Dailey
#17. Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.
Yiyun Li
#18. I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#19. As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibility in their appearance, but with little promise of strength or the quality that makes success.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#21. 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
#22. I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
Richard Linklater
#23. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind
Anonymous
#24. It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.
Stephen R. Covey
#25. Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success.
Mark LaMoure
#26. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.
William Poundstone
#27. Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is, is controlled falling. It's the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.
Derek Rydall
#28. Our bodies are truly the result of what we eat, what we think about, and the exercise we receive. If we are not wise, these little things can soon cause major health problems that will limit our success and ability to serve.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#29. Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus
#30. There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
H.M. Tomlinson
#31. We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
Vivienne Westwood
#33. Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.
Jack Hyles
#34. For eventually one gets over reality's affront to one's innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.
Paul Russell
#35. Success is the culmination of all the little moves, the small choices, the little decisions you make each day. You can do that.
Joseph Callaway
#36. Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.
Dwayne Johnson
#37. I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.
Matt Nix
#38. Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.
Ibn Warraq
#39. Winston Churchill once said "Never Give Up", little pause..... "Never Give Up" and again pause.... "Never Give Up". This 9 Words, said about success (Bob Proctor from Confidence!)
Deyth Banger
#40. Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else
Fela Durotoye
#41. Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!
Chris Powell
#42. If a person thinks that one cent coin is of too little value, he cannot succeed in life.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#43. I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
Marie Curie
#44. On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
Derek Jeter
#46. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
David J. Schwartz
#47. It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music?
D.A. Botta
#48. I started to practise shooting more seriously, more than once a week. I wasn't very good at it before, but I got a lot better. I've also become a little bit stronger on the tracks, too, which has increased my chances of success.
Tora Berger
#49. I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson
#50. Our expectations set the limits for our lives. If you expect little, you're going to receive little. If you don't anticipate things to get better, then they won't. But if you expect more favor, more good breaks, a promotion, and an increase, then you will see new levels of favor and success.
Joel Osteen
#51. The secret of success is to try always to improve yourself no matter where you are or what your position. Learn all you can. Don't see how little you can do, but how much you can do.
William Walker Atkinson
#52. My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Tony Robbins
#53. As you'll come to know, the closer you get to your goal, the more it draws you in; success feeds on success. It's like a gravitational pull. Once you get into a rhythm, it's hard to stop. You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus.
Shawn Phillips
#54. You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.
Nick Nolte
#55. When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.
Brian Tracy
#56. If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Alain De Botton
#57. Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#58. Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
Bliss Carman
#59. Success ... Is all about being able to extend love to people ... not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word
Ralph Fiennes
#60. To be sure, they have had the occasional success, but there is little chance that North America will develop a functional land ethic until it finds a way to overcome its irrational addiction to profit.
Thomas King
#61. A thesis has to be presentable ... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all.
Paul Ehrenfest
#62. Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.
Orrin Woodward
#63. I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.
Nayvadius Cash
#64. Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.
Theodore Levitt
#65. To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.
Robert Breault
#66. Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success
Tim Field
#67. The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.
Virender Sehwag
#68. Without courage, little is done and accomplished.
Auliq Ice
#69. 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
#70. If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you.
John Patrick Hickey
#71. My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.
Madeline Zima
#72. ... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.
Louisa May Alcott
#73. Be on the right way and go in the right direction. Once you are never going back, you will progress day after day, little by little.
Israelmore Ayivor
#74. When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luc.
Roger Moore
#75. When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
Juliana Hatfield
#76. As life begins with a tiny little thing, success begins with tiny little steps forward.
Debasish Mridha
#77. People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon
#78. I definitely think it [the key to maintain success] is a number of things. It's having the right people behind you. It's having the right work ethic. It's having the right mind-set. And it's also a little bit of luck.
Jordin Sparks
#80. Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
Henry Petroski
#81. Life is not without a little adventure,
Adventure is not without a little danger,
Success is not without a little failure
Tim Reid
#82. The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all.
Nara
Jordan MacLean
#83. Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.
Steve Maraboli
#84. It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.
Ashton Kutcher
#85. Every failure hollows out my heart a little further, and no success is able to refill any of that emptiness.
Dean Koontz
#86. I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.
Sarah Emma Edmonds
#87. It is important to fail in order to gain success. Even one needs to bend a little when about to jump high
Laksh Kishore
#88. Drop all those assumptions that success is built on success. Add a very little value to yourself and it will amaze you how you will see people appreciate that value!
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience
Peter Ellis
#90. Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.
Derek Thompson
#91. If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
Saint Francis De Sales
#92. Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
Napoleon Hill
#93. What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
John Di Lemme
#94. Triump is just a little umph added to try.
Tim Owens
#95. And what are we saying, anyway? That only old money is allowed to buy success? Isn't that a little like telling Noel and Liam Gallagher that they aren't allowed to make anything of themselves because they didn't go to Eton?
Nick Hornby
#96. The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan Poe
#97. In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
Sam Yagan
#98. My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.
Bruno Mars
#99. Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.
Donald Trump
#100. I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Samuel Johnson