Success Quotes

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.