Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Voltaire – Success
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Voltaire – Success, Arts
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
Henry David Thoreau – Action, Success
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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.
Henry David Thoreau – Success
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau – Goal, Success
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain
Anthony Robbins – Definition of success
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.
Anthony Robbins – Being successful
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn – Success
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G.K. Chesterton – Success, Advice
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas Alva Edison – Success, Reward
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas Alva Edison – Success
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin – Success
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw – Success
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw – Success, Offence
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
