Success Quotes

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

~ Michael Specter

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

~ Chris Van Hollen

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

~ John Wayne

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

~ Orison Swett Marden

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

~ C. V. Raman

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

~ Major Taylor

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

~ Susana Martinez

If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.

~ Daryl Hall

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

~ Charles Luckman

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

~ Dwayne Johnson

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Success has always been a great liar.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

~ Satya Nadella

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

~ Martha Stewart

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

~ John P. Kotter

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

~ Bonnie Blair

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

~ Patricia Cornwell

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

~ James Heckman

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

~ Tom Chatfield

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

~ A. R. Rahman

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

~ John D. Rockefeller

I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?

~ Serena Williams

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

~ John Mcdonald

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

~ Shiv Khera

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

~ Bo Bennett

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

~ Naveen Jain

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

~ Kat Graham

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

~ Shakira

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

~ Paul Walker

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

~ Alec Baldwin

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

~ Salma Hayek

When I realized that my big dream was going to come true - 'Night Shift' was a success, 'Splash' was a success, I got the job to do 'Cocoon' - suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.

~ Ron Howard