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Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.
— Brendon Burchard
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
— Wilma Mankiller
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
— Og Mandino
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
— Henry Ford
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
— Maya Angelou
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.
— Josh Turner
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
— Malcolm X
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
— Robin S. Sharma
My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.
— Conor McGregor
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
— Simon Mainwaring
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
— Isaac Newton
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
— Conrad Hilton
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
— Al Yankovic
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
— Ramana Maharshi
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
— Nolan Ryan
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. 
— Booker T. Washington
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
— William Eardley IV
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
— Bo Bennett
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
— Vince Lombardi
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
— Wiz Khalifa
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
— Charles Kendall Adams
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it find a hurt and heal it find a problem and solve it. 
— Robert H. Schuller
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.
— Britney Spears
The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.
— Charlie White
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
— John F. Kennedy
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
— Bernie Mac
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
— Marilyn vos Savant
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
— Peter James
Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
— Bruce Rauner
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
— Lil Wayne
I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.
— Kendrick Lamar
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.
— Christian de Duve
To be prepared is half the victory.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
— David LaChapelle
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
Fortune befriends the bold.
— Emily Dickinson
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
— Michelle Obama
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
— Jim Rohn
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
— Earl Nightingale
There is no success without hardship.
— Sophocles
Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.
— Shari Arison
Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.
— Josh McDaniels
I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.
— Tom Shadyac
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
— Napoleon Hill
Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
— Akon
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
— George Washington
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
— Henry Ford
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
— Robert Collier
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
— Jim Rohn
There's no abiding success without commitment.
— Tony Robbins
I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
— Sharad Pawar
Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
— Laila Ali
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
— Ronald Reagan
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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 one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
— Don Shula
I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.
— Mary Berry
I think that success is having fun.
— Bruno Mars
Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with you're just gonna end up lonely. 
— Selena Gomez
Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.
— Tony Gwynn
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
— Joe Paterno
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
— Greg Boyle
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
— Patrick Lencioni
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
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
— Azar Nafisi
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
— Howard Nemerov
No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.
— Matt Cameron
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
— William Osler
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
— Nicki Minaj
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
— William C. Bryant
A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'
— Arsene Wenger
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
— Michelle Obama
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
— Gustave Flaubert
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
— Amy Tan
My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
— Vera Wang
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
— Ben Jonson
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
— Jim Lovell
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
— Napoleon Hill
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
— Ray Kroc
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
— Aeschylus
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
— Scott Adams
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
— Robert Foster Bennett
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
— Marvin Sapp
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
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
— W. Clement Stone
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
— Larry Ellison
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
— Jack Welch
Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
— Jennifer Lopez
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
— Sam Ewing
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
— Patrick Henry
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
— Maya Angelou
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
— Charlie Sheen
All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
— Manny Pacquiao
Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
— Rafe Spall
The road to success runs uphill.
— Willie Davis
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
— Alexander Graham Bell
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
— Martin Seligman
You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.
— Myles Munroe
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
— Shirley Jones
You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
— Kevin O'Leary
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
— Johnny Depp
Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'
— Bill Cosby
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
— James E. Casey
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
— Mark Twain
The secret of success is sincerity.
— Jean Giraudoux
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
— Jon Bon Jovi
I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
— Vikas Swarup
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
By providing clear objectives for your team, and setting guardrails for how they get there, you will set them on the path to success.
— Chris Fussell
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
— Golda Meir
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
— Henry Kissinger
Success is the sum of details.
— Harvey S. Firestone
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
— River Phoenix
One fails forward toward success.
— Charles Kettering
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 the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours. 
— Orison Swett Marden
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
— Robert W. Service
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
— David O. Selznick
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
— Ben Stein
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
— Zig Ziglar
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
— Robert Collier
I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
— Elisabeth Shue
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
— George Hickenlooper
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
— Erwin Rommel
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
— H. G. Wells
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
— Bobby Locke
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
— Brit Hume
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
— George Herman
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
— George Allen, Sr.
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
— Jose Bergamin
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Success comes in waves.
— Guy Pearce
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
— Phylicia Rashad
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
— Alan Price
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
— Jim Rohn
It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
— Marcus Buckingham
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
— Henri Matisse
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later. 
— Confucius
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
— James Cash Penney
You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.
— Julie Benz
Success - it's what you do with what you've got.
— Woody Hayes
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
— Joyce Meyer
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
— Dale Carnegie
What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.
— Vivienne Ming
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
— Walter Scott
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
— Walter Chrysler
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.
— Gene Wilder
When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
— Stephen Covey
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
— Denis Waitley
People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
— Kate Moss
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
— Philip Guedalla
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
— Marcus Garvey
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
— Lionel Messi
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
— Jack Nicklaus
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
— Al Bernstein
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
Much effort, much prosperity.
— Euripides
There is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
— Lydia M. Child
They succeed, because they think they can.
— Virgil
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
— Christopher Reeve
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
— Harvey S. Firestone
Success breeds success.
— Mia Hamm
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
Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
— Monty Hall
When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.
— Travis Bradberry
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
— Charlie Gonzalez
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
— Thomas A. Edison
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
— James Allen
Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
— Malik Bendjelloul
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
— Denis Waitley
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
— Cardinal Richelieu
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
— Sigmund Freud
There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
— Ricky Williams
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
— Betsey Johnson
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
— Harper Lee
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
— Celine Dion
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.
— Lisa Morton
We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.
— Henry Cloud
The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.
— Michelle Obama
Success is the child of audacity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
— Charles J. Givens
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
— Fernando Pessoa
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
— Chet Atkins
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
— William Lloyd Garrison
When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.
— Evan Williams
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
— Chance The Rapper
The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.
— Dhirubhai Ambani
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
— Marie Curie
Only stupid people are changed by success.
— Jurgen Klopp
We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.
— Jamie Dimon
You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
— Naveen Jain
Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'
— David Spade
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
— David McCullough
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
— Luc de Clapiers
Applause waits on success.
— Benjamin Franklin
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
— Marquis de Sade
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
— Bo Bennett
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
— Alan Greenspan
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
— Nelson Boswell
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
— Derek Jeter
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
— Tanya Tucker
Academic success depends on research and publications.
— Philip Zimbardo
How does one measure the success of a museum?
— J. Paul Getty
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
— Walter Pater
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
— Eddie Cantor
The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.
— Hassanal Bolkiah
I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.
— James Wolfe
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
— Marcus Garvey
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
— Zig Ziglar
Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. 
— Democritus
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
— William J. H. Boetcker
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
— Anna Pavlova
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
— Plato
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
— Ingrid Bergman
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
— Pablo Picasso
What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
— Jim Carrey
You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.
— Meg Whitman
We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.
— Ellen Ochoa
When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.
— Nigel Farage
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
— Reed Hastings
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
— Bill Gates
Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
— Susana Martinez
I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.
— Meek Mill
Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.
— Reese Witherspoon
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
— Bob Riley
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
— Jack Nicholson
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
— Herbert Spencer
Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
— Bryant H. McGill
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
— Paulo Coelho
When you win, nothing hurts.
— Joe Namath
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
— Henry J. Heinz
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
— Gene Fowler
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other. 
— Erma Bombeck
Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.
— Lindsey Wixson
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
— Thomas A. Edison
I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.
— Joe Nichols
I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.
— Gordon Ramsay
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
— Alex Noble
In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you.
— Ben Shapiro
My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.
— David Harewood
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
— Maxwell Maltz
Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
— K. Flay
We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.
— Ashley Olsen
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
— Eric S. Raymond
Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
— Ewan McGregor
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
— Azim Premji
Success demands singleness of purpose.
— Vince Lombardi
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
— Calvin Coolidge
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
— Elbert Hubbard
I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.
— Tracy Chapman
I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
— Calvin Klein
Our success as a global brand has been directly related to how we select locations where we are confident our particular clients desire to be. Los Cabos, Mexico is the ideal Engel & Volkers market, growing in popularity among world luxury travelers seeking exceptional properties for second home opportunities.
— Anthony Hitt
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
— Ian Ziering
Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.
— Nick Saban
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'
— Donald Rumsfeld
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
— Tony Robbins
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
— Bo Bennett
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
— David R. Ellis
My definition of success is control.
— Kenneth Branagh
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
— Paul J. Meyer
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
— Anne Sullivan
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
— Zig Ziglar
The victor belongs to the spoils.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
— Larry King
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
— Ethel Barrymore
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
— Sting
We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.
— Jimmy Carter
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
— Ambrose Bierce
The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
— Mark Caine
Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.
— Michael Bergdahl
Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.
— Lucas Grabeel
There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.
— Marina and the Diamonds
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
— Tom Harkin
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
— Bradley Whitford
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
— Umberto Eco
The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
— Vicente Fox
Obedience brings success exact obedience brings miracles. 
— Russell M. Nelson
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
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
— Dee Hock
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
— Celine Dion
My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.
— Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
— Barbara Walters
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
— Napoleon Hill
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
— Hideki Tojo
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
— George Allen, Sr.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
— Joseph Murray
There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
— Neil Patrick Harris
The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.
— Howard Schultz
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
— Jason Calacanis
Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
— K. Flay
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
— Denis Waitley
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
— Marcus Aurelius
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
— Kin Hubbard
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
— Oprah Winfrey
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
— Richard Lugar
Successful people breed success.
— Phil Crosby
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
— Bruce Henderson
We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
— Neal Barnard
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
— Herschel Walker
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
— Elias Canetti
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
— Ed McMahon
I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.
— Jonny Wilkinson
I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.
— Andre Rieu
If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.
— Brendon Burchard
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
— Margaret Mead
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
— John Madden
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
— Treat Williams
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
— Lee Ann Womack
I am stable when my private life is a success.
— Don Johnson
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
— James Wolfe
Success is a great deodorant.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.
— Jason Derulo
Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
— Nicholas Hoult
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
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 is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
— W. Clement Stone
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
— Jessye Norman
I've had great success being a total idiot.
— Jerry Lewis
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
— John Ruskin
Why be a man when you can be a success?
— Bertolt Brecht
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
— Max Lerner
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
— Charles J. Givens