Quotes on Success

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

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

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.