Top 453 Success Quotes

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Fred Saberhagen

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Anne-Marie Duff

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Alexander Graham Bell

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

Alex Kapranos

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

Ezra Taft Benson

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Isabel Sanford

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

Masayoshi Son

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Charles Buxton

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Bill Bradley

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