What Determines Success?

How Others Characterize True Success

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” BENJAMIN DISRAELI

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”  Sophia Loren

 

 “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” Louis Pasteur

 

  “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin

 

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John D. Rockefeller

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton

“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. “Here comes number seventy-one!” Richard M. Devos

“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.” Admiral Hyman Rickover

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” Walter Elliott

“Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.” Napoleon Hill

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” Napoleon Hill

“What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.” Napoleon Hill

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” Dr. Samuel Johnson

“Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements.” Joseph P. Wirthlin

“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.” Mark Victor Hansen
“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.” Henry Fielding

“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” Ronald Reagan