quotations about success
True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Fall
Any time you see someone more successful than you are ... they are doing something you aren't.
MALCOLM X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.
ROBERT BONTINE CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM
Success and Other Sketches
Success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
MICHELLE OBAMA
speech at Democratic National Convention, September 4, 2012
Success is buried on the other side of frustration.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
HENRY FORD
Theosophist Magazine, February 1930
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
VANESSA REDGRAVE
attributed, Good-bye Baby and Amen
Success is a hidden jewel, and is found but by a few.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
PABLO PICASSO
Vogue, November 1, 1956
The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
SAM SHEPARD
The Observer, March 20, 2010
Complete success alienates a man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.
CHARLES BUXTON
Notes of Thought
You might discover greater success is just a matter of better channeling and projecting positivity about work.
CHRISTY RAKOCZY
"5 smart brain hacks to help you feel -- and project -- more positivity at work", Mic, July 10, 2017
Keep away from people who are always despondent; who always have a mental picture of some bad luck that is on the way. You can derive no benefit from association with such people; they spread the contagion of poverty thought, and in their company you will surely assimilate some of their ruinous-thought element. To say that "I can" and "I will" places you in alignment with thought currents that inevitably lead to "SUCCESS."
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Success", Human Life from Many Angles
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
speech, May 15, 1854
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Taiko
We used to go out walkin' hand in hand you told me all the big things you had planned
It wasn't long till all your dreams came true success put me in second place with you
You have no time to love me anymore since fame and fortune knocked upon our door
Now I spend all my evenings all alone success has made a failure of our home
LORETTA LYNN
"Success"
All successful men have agreed in one thing--they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. A belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing--characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one. The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
CHARLES BUXTON
Notes of Thought