Quotes about success

You have been blessed for success. Don’t pray to just get by, to endure. Dare to ask big.

Joel Osteen

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?… True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results – not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations – whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

Warren Buffett

Success plus self-esteem equals pretensions.

William James

You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

Jay-Z

I do not know how to wish success to those whose victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Edmund Burke

People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren’t in touch with reality.

Donald Trump

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

George Orwell

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one’s enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that’s what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.

Will Smith