Quotes About Success

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions os people who formerly snubbed you.

— Mary Wilson Little

The man who succeeds is never conceded the right to fail.

— William Pickens

If every successful man needs a woman behind him, every successful woman needs at least three men.

— Margot Naylor

Success is a public affair.  Failure is a private funeral.

— Rosalind Russell

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.

— Vidal Sassoon

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

— William Saroyan

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z, where X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.

— Albert Einstein

The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

— Don Marquis

Success covers many blunders.

— George Bernard Shaw

Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

— Arthur Rubinstein

Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.

— Bob Brown

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it.  We learn only from failure.

— Kenneth Boulding

How can they say my life isn’t a success?  Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

— Logan Pearsall Smith

We can’t all be lions in this world.  There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when going down.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by dint of hard work.

— Anna Pavlova

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

— John Churton Collins

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.

— Jules Renard

If a man can build a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

— Rudolph Bing

The toughest thing about being a success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success

— Irving Berlin

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

— Woody Allen

There’s no secret about success.  Did you ever know a successful man that didn’t tell you all about it?

— Kin Hubbard

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

— Christopher Morley

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

— Mark Twain

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.

— Oscar Wilde

The worst part of having success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

— Bette Midler (attrib.)

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

— Josh Billings

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

— Walter Cronkite

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.  I do, and I demand that my players do.

— Vince Lombardi

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind.  Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing succeeds like success.

— Alexandre Dumas