If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

The road to success runs uphill.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead if you strike oil.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

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.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Success doesn't suck.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

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.

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.