Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
- Aeschylus
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
- Jon Bon Jovi
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.
- Bob Dylan
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
- Bo Bennett
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
- Elinor Smith
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
- Christopher Reeve
Fortune befriends the bold.
- Emily Dickinson
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
- Don Shula
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
- Robert W. Service
They succeed, because they think they can.
- Virgil
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George Edward Woodberry
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
The victor belongs to the spoils.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
- William James
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
- Audrey Hepburn
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
There is no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
- Napoleon Hill
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
- David Merrick
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.
- Margaret Thatcher
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
- Julia Child
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Bessie Anderson Stanley
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
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.
- John Foster Dulles
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
- Tom Petty
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
- Jim Rohn
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
- Larry King
Nothing succeeds like success.
- Alexandre Dumas
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
- Lydia M. Child
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck
Success breeds success.
- Mia Hamm
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
- Harold S. Geneen
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
- Arthur Helps
Much effort, much prosperity.
- Euripides
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?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
- Sloan Wilson
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
- Walter Chrysler
When you win, nothing hurts.
- Joe Namath
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
- Herodotus
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
- Elias Canetti
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
- W. Clement Stone
The secret of success is sincerity.
- Jean Giraudoux
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
- Earl Wilson
We fall forward to succeed.
- Mary Kay Ash
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
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.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
- Walter Scott
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
- Orison Swett Marden
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie
Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
- Edward de Bono
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
- Sydney Madwed
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
- Jeff Rich
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
- Tennessee Williams
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
To be prepared is half the victory.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasow
There is no success without hardship.
- Sophocles
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
- W. Clement Stone
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.
- Bear Bryant
People fall forward to success.
- Mary Kay Ash
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
- Paul J. Meyer
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Elbert Hubbard
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
- Howard Nemerov
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
- Emily Dickinson
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
- Don Shula
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
- Margaret Thatcher
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
- Steve Harvey
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
- Charlie Sheen
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
- Lily Tomlin
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
- Winston Churchill
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
- Harvey S. Firestone
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
- Juliana Hatfield
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
- Joel Osteen
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
- Charles J. Givens
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
- Irving Berlin
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Benjamin Disraeli