Bored.com Dumb Sites

Search Results:

Author

Quote

Carrie Fisher

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

Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Tennessee Williams

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Margaret Thatcher

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Kevin Spacey

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

Logan P. Smith

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Ayn Rand

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Joe Paterno

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

David Merrick

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

W. Somerset Maugham

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Charles Luckman

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Larry King

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

William James

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

J. Paul Getty

Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

David Frost

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

B. C. Forbes

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Carrie Fisher

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

W. C. Fields

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Sam Ewing

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

John Foster Dulles

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Benjamin Disraeli

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Bill Cosby

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

David Brinkley

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

Erma Bombeck

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Ambrose Bierce

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Helen Hayes

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Tennessee Williams

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Kareem Abdul-Jabar

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Jim Rohn

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Jeff Herman

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Paul Aubuchon

She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.

Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Henry James

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be

Joseph Sugarman

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

James Gilmore Backus

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Joseph Heller

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Sydney Harris

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney J. Harris

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Zig Ziglar

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Diane Ackerman

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

John W. Hanley

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

Marva Collins

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Bertolt Brecht

Why be a man when you can be a success

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Sophocles

Success is dependent on effort.

Dave Del Dotto

No one ever excused his way to success.

Alexandre Dumas

Nothing succeeds like success.

Ben Sweetland

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Kim Hubbard

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no disinfectant like success.

Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went on ahead without it.

David Frost

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Ambrose Bierce

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Bill Parcells

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity.

Henry Ford

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

Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is what can do without success.

Jim Rohn

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

Jim Rohn

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Louise Nevelson

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Sri da Avabhas

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Unknown

If you can't find the key to success, pick the lock.

Bob Dylan

What's money A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Michael Flatley

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satis

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Success is never final.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.

Nothing fails like success.

Nothing recedes like success.

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

Self-trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Success has made failures of many men.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

The road to success is always under construction.

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Success is a great deodorant.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Successful people breed success.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

People fail forward to success.

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is acheiving the top of the food chain.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.