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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
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
— Marianne Williamson
I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
— Amelia Earhart
Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
— Robert Strauss
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
— Henry Ford
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Success is...knowing your purpose in life,growing to reach your maximum potential, andsowing seeds that benefit others.
— John C. Maxwell
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
— Suzy Kassem
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
— George S. Patton Jr.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
— Salvador Dalí
It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger
— Eiichirō Oda
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
— Bob Dylan
Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. 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. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject...Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my d
— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.
— Walt Disney Company
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
— Colin Powell
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
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.
— Voltaire
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.
— Nathan W. Morris
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
— Denis Waitley
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
— Mario Andretti
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
— Henry Ford
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?
— Joe Namath
Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
— Tim Fargo
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
— Harper Lee
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The roughest roads often lead to the top.
— Christina Aguilera
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
— Will Rogers
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
— Anna Quindlen
You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
— James Surowiecki
The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
— Alexandre Dumas
Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
— Warren Buffett
I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.
— Carroll Bryant
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
— Brad Szollose
Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
— Benjamin Franklin
Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. 
— Steve Maraboli
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
— Jim Rohn
If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon
— Po Bronson
One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
— Oscar Wilde
Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
— LeBron James, Shooting Stars
You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!
— Steve Maraboli
I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.
— Daisaku Ikeda, Discussions on Youth
You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
— Will Smith
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
— Christopher Morley
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
— Ezra Pound
If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
— Isobelle Carmody, The Keeping Place
Today is the only day in which we have any power.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..)This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.
— John C. Parkin, F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
— Zig Ziglar
You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
— Mia Hamm
NEVER be surprised by your own success!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Success is a journey, not a destination.
— Ben Sweetland
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
— John D. Rockefeller
Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
— Zig Ziglar
Your agreement with reality defines your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal
— Thomas S. Monson
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
— Betty Friedan
Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.
— Myles Munroe, understanding your potential discovering the hidden you
Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
— Anthony Robbins
Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.
— Tiger Woods
The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.
— Habeeb Akande
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. 
— Will Rodgers, The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers in His Own Voice
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
— Confucius
If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying
— John C. Maxwell
We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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
Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It’s inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
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
Success is a poor teacher
— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Participate in your own dreams, don’t just say what you want or complain about what you don’t have.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
...If there is no risk, there is no reward.
— Christy Raedeke, The Daykeeper's Grimoire
For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view.
— Jill Shalvis, The Sweetest Thing
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
— Conrad Hilton
When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her
— Karl Lagerfeld
When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less.
— Israelmore Ayivor
There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.
— Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman, Volume 3: Debut and Impatience
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
— Mary Kay Ash
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
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.
— Steve Maraboli
The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
— Mia Hamm
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
— Karl Lagerfeld
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
— David D. Burns
Live your vision and demand your success.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
— Albert Einstein
What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don’t just exist through it - LIVE through it!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
— Henry Ford
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
— Will Rogers
If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
— Sri Chinmoy
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
— Orrin Woodward
Don't think that just because you made it to the next level that the haters and naysayers disappear. Remember, new levels bring new devils.
— Steve Maraboli
When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.
— Jim Rohn
Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?
— Jillian Michaels
You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice
— Nathan W. Morris
Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you
— Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie
In theory, the risk of business failure can be reduced to a number, the probability of failure multiplied by the cost of failure. Sure, this turns out to be a subjective analysis, but in the process your own attitudes toward financial risk and reward are revealed.By contrast, personal risk usually defies quantification. It's a matter of values and priorities, an expression of who you are. "Playing it safe" may simply mean you do not weigh heavily the compromises inherent in the status quo. The financial rewards of the moment may fully compensate you for the loss of time and fulfillment. Or maybe you just don't think about it. On the other hand, if time and satisfaction are precious, truly priceless, you will find the cost of business failure, so long as it does not put in peril the well-being of you or your family, pales in comparison with the personal risks of no trying to live the life you want today.Considering personal risk forces us to define personal success. We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Most of us have inherited notions of "success" from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game. Personal goals, on the other hand, leave us on our own, without this habit of useless measurement and comparison.Only the Whole Life Plan leads to personal success. It has the greatest chance of providing satisfaction and contentment that one can take to the grave, tomorrow. In the Deferred Life Plan there will always be another prize to covet, another distraction, a new hunger to sate. You will forever come up short.
— Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful.
— Rob Liano
Let today be the day you stop having conflict between your actions and your goals and finally align your greatest intent with your purposeful actions, creating a universal symphony serenading your success!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Success is the best revenge.
— Kanye West
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable
— Thomas Fowell Buxton
I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.
— Tana French, Broken Harbour
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do.
— Lights Poxlietner
Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
No guts, no story.
— Chris Brady
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The road to success is always under construction.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
— Benjamin Franklin
Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
— Jimmy Carter, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. 
— Joe Strummer
Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!
— Gerard de Marigny, The Watchman of Ephraim
Action is the universal language of success.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Failure is always an option
— Adam Savage
If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried. 
— David Brent
Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.
— Leighton Meester
Many people succeed when others do not believe in them. But rarely does a person succeed when he does not believe in himself.
— Herb True
Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.
— Destiny Booze
If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations
— Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You
The number of ways to live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.
— Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didn't win, then we wouldn't tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun.
— Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.
— Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
— Winston S. Churchill
To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
— Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
— Steve Maraboli
Success doesn't come to you you go to it. 
— T. Scott McLeod
Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
— Karl Lagerfeld
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
— Booker T. Washington
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
When you are just EXISTING, life happens to you… and you manage; when you are truly LIVING, you happen to life… and you lead.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
— Bobby Orr
The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
— Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
— Denis Waitley
Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.
— Gregory J. Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
— L. Frank Baum
In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls “realism.”Manipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution…One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders.
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...
— Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
— Rudyard Kipling
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
— Joseph Joubert
The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
— Bryant McGill
If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
— Nadine Gordimer, Get a Life
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.
— Nancy Kress, Steal Across the Sky
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
— John Wooden, Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success: Building Blocks for a Better Life
It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation
— Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
— Winston S. Churchill
You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.
— Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
— Steven Moffat
There are many people, particularly in sports, who think that success and excellence are the same thing. They are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control. If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually. People who put excellence in the first place have the patience to end up with success. An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he is threatened by the success of others and he resents real excellence. In contrast, the person that is fascinated by quality is excited when he sees it in others.
— Joe Paterno
If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute themselves for the sake of others is one of the great tragedies of our time. Stop letting others define and set the pace for your life. Get out there and be your best. Do your best. Live your best. Make every day count and you’ll see how exponentially more exciting, thrilling, successful, happy and full your life will be.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!
— K.L. Toth
Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.
— Israelmore Ayivor
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
— Arundhati Roy
Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.
— Daphne du Maurier, The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
— Alexandra Ripley
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
— Albert Camus
If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.
— Timothy J. Keller, Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Every flower blooms at a different pace.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER TO LIE TO YOURSELF.
— Unknown
I tell you, life is extraordinary. A few years ago I couldn’t write anything or sell anything, I’d passed the age where you know all the returns are in, I’d had my chance and done my best and failed. And how was I to know the miracle waiting to happen round the corner in late middle age? 84, Charing Cross Road was no best seller, you understand; it didn’t make me rich or famous. It just got me hundreds of letters and phone calls from people I never knew existed; it got me wonderful reviews; it restored a self-confidence and self-esteem I’d lost somewhere along the way, God knows how many years ago. It brought me to England. It changed my life.
— Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? 
— Henry David Thoreau
The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.
— Lorii Myers
No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.
— Chris Hardwick
if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
— Tiger Woods
What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace
— Paulo Coelho
Forget about style worry about results.  
— Bobby Orr
Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly."We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.
— Jim Butcher, Academ's Fury
How many of us stop short of success on purpose? How many of us sabotage our own happiness because failure, while miserable, is a fear we're familiar with? Success, however, dreams come true, are a whole new kind of terrifying, an entire new species of responsibilities and disillusions, requiring a new way to think, act and become. Why do we REALLY quit? Because it's hopeless? Or because it's possible...
— Jennifer DeLucy
Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success.
— Chef Jiro
Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
— Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
— Ian Fleming, Moonraker
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
— Lawrence Durrell, Justine
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage. 
— Charles Luckman
Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
— Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve.
— Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect
It's neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God's Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world. We love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one that really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one which we so adamantly try to shut ourselves off from.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain