Quotes on Success

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

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.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.