Quotes about Success
When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.
— Zig Ziglar
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
It's the same here as it is on earth—you've got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it. You can't enjoy first and earn afterwards. But there's this difference, here: you can choose your own occupation, and all the powers of heaven will be put forth to help you make a success of it, if you do your level best. The shoe-maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won't have to make shoes here.
— Mark Twain
There are two types of people. People who have accomplished things and people who have claimed to accomplish things. The first group is less crowded.
— Mark Twain
To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence
— Mark Twain
There is no gain without struggle.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of a partial victory by which new efforts are powered.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
— Arthur Schopenhauer