Success Quotes - Page 10

• The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Focus, Energy, Growing

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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dance, Life And Love, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1831). “The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons”, p.47

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

  Mark Twain

  People, Secret, Firsts

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  The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Future

  Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

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• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Patience, Nature

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• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Thinking, Self, Way

  Booker T. Washington (2007). “The Story of My Life and Work”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Men, Giving

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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• It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  Robert H. Goddard

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Congratulations, Literature, Talent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Hyperion”, p.66

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• every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1004, Penguin

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• Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

  Aeschylus

  Friendship, Strength, Jealousy

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

  Mark Ryden

  Inspirational, Believe, Heart

  "Art Space Talk: Mark Ryden". Interview with Brian Sherwin, myartspace-blog.blogspot.ru. December 4, 2006.

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Quoted in Observer, 15 Jan. 1950

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• No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Wise, Reading

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 19, 2017

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• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

  Hesiod

  Loss, Gains

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Perseverance, Men, Optimism

  Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.

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• An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

  Victor Kiam

  Stress, Entrepreneur, Risk

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