Success & Failure Quotes

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Charles J. Givens

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

Joe Girard

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

Chinese Proverb

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Edward W. Howe

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!

Sasha Azevedo

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Mack R. Douglas

You cannot have the success without the failures.

H. G. Hasler

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas Alva Edison

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

May V. Smith

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Walter Cronkite

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Bernard Baruch

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Robert H. Schuller

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

George Orwell

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Jack Kinder

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Confucius

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Benjamin F. Fairless

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewing

Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

George Fabricius

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Warren Buffett