Quotes on Great Success

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

His head was turned by too great success.