- I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
- Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides
- If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
- The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
- Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Marilyn Monroe
- Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus
- There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
- Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing
- Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi
- Success breeds success.
Mia Hamm
- Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
Christopher Reeve
- The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
Don Shula
- Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
- The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen
- It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Robert W. Service
- Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
Tom Petty
- Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn
- All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
Herodotus
- In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
- 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 our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top
- They succeed, because they think they can.
Virgil
- 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 secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
Howard Nemerov
- Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
- Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
- Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
- The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly
- Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein
- 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
- It’s not enough that I should succeed – others should fail.
David Merrick
- Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
- The secret of success is sincerity.
Jean Giraudoux
- I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Johann Sebastian Bach
- 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
- To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens
- In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Arthur Helps
- Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
- The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
- To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
- One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
- Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
- Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Kevin Spacey
- We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan
- You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Michael Dell
- Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child
- The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler
- Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
- The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
- Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas
- Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck