Success on any major scale requires you to
accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the
ability to take on responsibility.
— Michael Korda
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success;
about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
— Mason Cooley
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the
easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman
Getting results does not take time; it's the not getting results that
takes all your time.
— Joe Polish
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions — the
hero and the sidekick.
— Laurence Shames
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would have been enough.
— Albert Einstein
If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to
be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and
everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
— Pablo Picasso
You can't have the space for prosperity and success when you are obsessed
with security. It is not possible to obtain unwavering security — physical, emotional, or economic — by
having money. Keep in mind that security, like success, can be defined in many ways. If you focus less
on how much your financial assets are worth, and more on what a creative and well-balanced individual
you can be, security will take on a new meaning.
— from
The Joy of
Not Working by Ernie Zelinski
If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek
information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I
would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look
around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
— Joseph Marshall Wade
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests.
It's a miracle, and the dance . . . is a celebration of that miracle.
— Martha Graham
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day,
something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is
bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
— Christopher Morley
Success is doing what you like and making a living at it.
— Greek proverb
To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with
your work.
— Sister Mary Lauretta
Remove failure as an option.
— Joan Lunden
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're
doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical
health, you'll have more success than you could possibly have imagined.
— Roger Caras
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
— Gareth Beynon, British Doctor, about success in privatized medicine
People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you
give something to [for free] that you can't please.
— Will Rogers
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
— Ted Turner
To be a success in business, be
daring, be first, be different.
— Marchant
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self—observant to know exactly on what
their success depends.
— Joseph Jacobs
I joined the army, and I succeeded in killing about as many
of the enemy as they of me.
— Bill Arp
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I
always expected it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they
don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners
can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the
adventure with them.
— Denis Waitley
If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the
secret
to success.
— Jack Solomons
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
— T. S. Eliot
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success
through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
— Josh Billings
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest
bastards on earth.
— John Lennon
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
— Florynce R. Kenndy
Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that
love of work is success.
— David O. McKay
Hard Work and Real Success — Oil and
Water!
— from Career Success Without a Real Job
Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.
— Eckhart Tolle
After you've worked hard to get
what you want, take the time to enjoy it.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I joined the army, and I succeeded in killing about as many of the enemy as they of me.
— D. S. Ropp
You never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
— Irish proverb
We learn to walk by stumbling.
— Bulgarian proverb
Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the
question is: Why do you have to imagine this?
— from Life's Secret
Handbook by Ernie Zelinski
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to
lose sight of the shore.
— Unknown wise person
You have reached the pinnacle of success as
soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
— Dr. O. A. Battista
Any idiot can face a crisis — it’s day to day living that
wears you out.
— Anton Chekhov
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not
the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.
— Stephen Vizinczey, The Rules of Chaos, 1970
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
— Paul Valery
People who avoid all crticism fail.
— Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Work Week
Those who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt the people doing it.
— Chinese Proverb
Patience makes all hardships light.
— Estonian proverb
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast,
eat your breakfast first.
— Josh Billings
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
— Chinese proverb
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and
if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in
failure.
— Michael Korda
Get what you can and keep what you have. That's the way to get rich.
— Scottish proverb
It is better for one's reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed
unconventionally.
— John Maynard Keynes
My ship came in the other day but I was at the bus depot.
— Unknown Wise Person
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of
making excuses.
— George Washington Carver
Real wealth equals ideas plus energy.
— Buckminster Fuller
Real success doesn't care how you get there.
— from Career Success Without a Real
Job
The best thing that comes with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
— Liv Ullman
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become
successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
— Dr. Wayne Dyer
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you don't like.
— George Bernard Shaw
Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found
out.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
— Joseph Heller
If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a
horrible warning.
— Catherine Aird
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to
create.
— José Ortega y Gasset
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
— Madeline Bridges
A non-doer is very often a critic — that is, someone who sits back
and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic,
but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
— Dr. Wayne Dyer
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
— Robert Bresson
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
— Arnold Glasow
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that
everything won't come easily.
No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success.
You will always meet obstacles to overcome.
The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to
deal with problems.
Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way.
And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.
— from Life's Secret Handbook by Ernie Zelinski
I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll
turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and
put my things in order.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Never expect everything to be easy.
If you succeed on the first try, you can be assured that it won't happen again.
Either that, or what you have accomplished is not worth boasting about.
— from Life's Secret Handbook
To be honest, as the world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
— William Shakespeare
Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
— Helen Hayes
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your
life.
— Dr. Wayne Dyer
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of
pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and
accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a
perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express
it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an
inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
— Betty Anderson Stanley
Anyone seen on a bus after the age of thirty has been a failure in
life.
— Loelia, Duchess of Wesminster
Well done is better than well said.
— Benjamin Franklin
People forget how fast you did a job — but they remember how well you did it.
— Howard Newton
Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the
rest.
— Goldstein S. Truism
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for
myself that I could pay others to do for me.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Success is women you don't even know walking around your house.
— from Saturday Night Live
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in
business by being a conformist.
— J Paul Getty
Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.
— Unknown Wise Person
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula
for failure — which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert B. Swope
The greatest end in life is not knowledge but action.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
— Dr. Wayne Dyer
Someone who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing
and succeeds.
— Unknown Wise Person
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
— José Bergamín
Don't play for safety — it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
— Hugh Walpole
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
— Carrie Fisher
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
— Anon wise person
The man who has done his level best . . . is a success, even though the world may write him down a
failure.
— B.C. Forbes
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles
which he has overcome.
— Booker T. Washington
I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic:
that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you
get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.
— Ken Blanchard
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
— An Wang
Unless you are willing to walk out into the unknown, the chances of making a profound difference in your
life are pretty slim.
— Tom Peters
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the
quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there
might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
— Michael Korda
Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do
so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy
others. It leads to sterility.
— Pablo Picasso
The two hardest things in life to handle are failure and success.
— Anaon
I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if
you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that
today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich.
Look poor.
— Andy Warhol
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As
you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance,
humility, and commitment.
— Ross Perot
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits — like becoming a
millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the stratosphere
or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits — involving, as they must, trying to understand what life
is about and trying to convey that understanding — inevitably result in a sense of failure. A
Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a
Blake. Understanding is for ever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitability of failure in embarking upon
its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a
nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I
would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
— Michael Korda
I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing
and succeed.
— Robert Schuller
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
— Michael Korda
Success doesn't come to you . . . you go to it.
— Marve Collins
I couldn't wait for success . . . so I went ahead without it.
— Jonathan Winters
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
— George Smith Patton
Always do the right and honest thing, however more difficult it may
appear.
In the long term, it will be the easier and more rewarding thing to have done.
You will be five times worse off than having just a little success when you attain a lot of success tainted
by dishonesty and greed.
— from Life's Secret Handbook by Ernie Zelinski
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
— Hesiod
The lust for success and money destroys more character than it should.
Earn your money and success through service to others and not at the expense of others.
When you look in the mirror, you already see the biggest troublemaker in your life.
You don't also want to see a crook.
— from Life's Secret Handbook
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can
find such a man.
— Lana Turner
Criticism of Others: a smoke screen behind which unsuccessful people hide
their nothingness.
— Dave Erhard
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
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let
go.
— William Feather
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
— Woody Allen
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary
success.
— Mason Cooley
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
— Mike Ditka
Ask yourself the secret to your success. Listen to your answer, and
practice it.
— Richard Bach
It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.
— Sir William Walton
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
— Donald A. Miller
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most
insignificant success is achieved.
— Anne Sullivan
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come
naturally.
— David Frost
Some people dream of success . . . while others wake up and work at it.
— Anon
Real success doesn't care how you get there.
— from Career Success Without a Real Job
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
— Al Bernstein
The road to success runs uphill.
— Willie Davis
The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not
succeeded.
— John Churton Collins
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
— Nancy Astor
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time,
and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at
success.
— Michael Korda
If people knew what they had to do to be successful, most people
wouldn't.
— Lord Thomson of Fleet
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the
credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
— Dwight Morrow (advice in a letter to his son)
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
— Michael Korda
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
— Al Batt
Be enthusiastic about the success of others — not just your
own.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
