"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
— W.C. Fields

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"
— W.P. Kinsella

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
— Confucius

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. "
— Mark Twain

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
— Woody Allen

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
— Salvador Dali

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."
— Bette Midler

"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 overcome while trying to succeed."
— Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery: An Autobiography)

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. "
— Oprah Winfrey

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one."
— Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

"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

"If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it."
— Elbert Hubbard

"Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"Decide what you want to be....
Pay the Price ...
And be what you want to be."
— John A Widtsoe (In a Sunlit Land)

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."
— John Wooden

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
— Salvador Dali

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
— Niccolò Machiavelli

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."
— Madeleine Albright (Madam Secretary: A Memoir)

"Success is a journey, not a destination."
— Ben Sweetland

"Success is a great deodorant."
— Elizabeth Taylor

"It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them."
— Rick Bragg

"Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that's dynamic and expressivee--that's what's good for you if you're at all serious in your aims. William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition."
— Tennessee Williams

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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— Thomas A. Edison

"To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!"
— Lillian Cauldwell

"There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind."
— Deepak Chopra

"If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow."
— Dhirubai Ambani

"I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures."
— Antonio Machado

"Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
— conrad hilton

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."
— Joyce Brothers

"Always stay on the road to success."
— Dana Young

"You can do it gradually...day by day and play by play...if you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time.

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— William E. Holl

"The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them"
— Frank Eberhart, CEP, RFC