Success Quotes

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.