But to do for the world more than the world does for you--that is Success.
Success Quotes
There are not many famous names on this page. Shakespeare leads, then Steve Maraboli and Emerson, and most of the authors appear only once. The quotes with real citations are more interesting than the motivational ones: James Richardson’s “Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for” (Vectors, 2001), or Jean Ingelow in 1886 observing that if one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” is credited to Churchill almost everywhere it appears. No source has been found. One of the places it shows up is a 2003 book, with none given. It is on the Courage page too, with the same flag.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Massive success and massive inertia are two sides of a coin.
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it.
Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.