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Success Quotes


"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."


"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure."


"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."


"Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful."


"I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself."


"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."


"Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa."


"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."


"I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum."


"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts."


"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups."


"So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries."


"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."


"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."


"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."


"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."


"The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme."


"However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day."


"We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy."


"If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that."



"That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities."


"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."


"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."


"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."


"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."


"There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years."


"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."


"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."


"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"


"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."


"I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful."


"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."


"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."


"That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun."
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