Temporary Success Quotes

#1. Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

William Feather

#2. Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Roger Staubach

#3. Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

Edward Everett

#4. Our world is full of temporary promises and guile. It is necessarily so. We are not evil people, this is just how we survive. There are only a few steps that separate success from failure. Understand this and you will not suffer from disillusionment as often as I did.

Amy Tan

#5. We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Bruce Lee

#7. I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

John D. Rockefeller

#8. My struggle will be the root of my success story and my patience will soon fill my cup of prosperity...My tears are temporary.-Lekisha

Lekisha Lyles

#9. Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

Tim Brady

#10. You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Napoleon Hill

#11. Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

Francis Alexander Durivage

#12. It is a common condition of being poor ... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

Rick Bragg

#13. In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.

Rick Warren

#14. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley

#15. Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services and titles that can appeal, not only to those who have never played games, but also to those who play them hard.

Satoru Iwata

#16. Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.

Archibald Marwizi

#17. It is better to experience temporary discomfort to achieve the dream, than permanent comfort without any fulfillment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#19. I don't pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there'll be slack times in my career. It's unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.

Lea Seydoux

#20. Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

Al Alvarez

#21. Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Waitley

#23. Changing irrational beliefs can impact multiple areas of life. It doesn't matter how many times you repeat affirmations for success but if you don't change your core beliefs, the changes will be temporary.

Hina Hashmi

#24. Success & failure both are temporary, utilizing your skills can take you to the wiser position.

Srinivas Shenoy

#25. One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Mary Kay Ash

#26. My friend, temporary setbacks and failures are prerequisites to success. They aren't signs that, "maybe it's just not supposed to be.

Clay Clark

#27. Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Vince Gill

#28. Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Vince Lombardi

#29. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#30. Failure is only a temporary fall. You must rise up any time you fall.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. Success is temporary, legacy is forever.

Ben Tolosa

#32. I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

Buddy Ebsen