"Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise." William Penn

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure." David Ambrose

"What isn't tried won't work." Claude McDonald

"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success." Mary O'Hare Dumas

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." James Yorke

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby

"Three things are needed for success: a backbone, a wishbone, and a funny bone." Reba McEntire

"When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer." Wilferd A. Peterson

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." Bill Cosby

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." Ann Landers

"There are no elevators in the house of success." H. H. Vreeland

"Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket." Anonymous

"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try." unknown

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." Robert Louis Stevenson

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

"Successful people start out in life with the same disadvantages as the rest of us. They just find ways to turn their disadvantages into assets." Sidney A. Friedman

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." Leonardo da Vinci

"To be successful, you don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well." Jim Rohn

"The penalty of success is to be bored by those who used to snub you." Lady Astor

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." Unknown




"In bad times, we learn good habits." James Yerage

"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" Zig Ziglar

"Try again. Fail again. Try better." Samuel Beckett

"I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling ... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift." Kevin Spacey

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." John Burroughs

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." Rabindranath Tagor (1861 - 1941)

"You can't win unless you know how to lose." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience." Elbert Hubbard

"Success builds confidence, failure builds character." Unknown

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all." Norman Vincent Peale

"You can only be as good as you dare to be bad." John Barrymore

"Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out." E. Joseph Cossman

"Given an equal amount of intelligence, timidity will cause a thousand times more problems than audacity." Carl von Clausewitz

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

"Nothing builds confidence like accomplishment." Thomas Carlyle

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." Coco Chanel)

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)

"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success." Unknown

"Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach." Benjamin Mays

“To fly, we have to have resistance." Maya Lin

"When we harness the forces of harmony, joy and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease." Deepak Chopra

“You haven't failed until you give up.” unknown

"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated." Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” James Allen

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.” William Durant

“Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.” Alex Noble

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." Warren Beatty

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

“Fail often to succeed sooner.” Anonymous

“In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.” Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don't have one, realize it's your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.” Amelia Earhart

“Don't judge yourself by other people's standards, you'll always lose” Billy Corgan

“You can get anything you want in life if you help others get what they want.” George Lengvari

“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” Jonathan Winters

“Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.” Eric Hoffer

“Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing." Sydney Smith

“The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.” Richard R. Grant

“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.” J. Paul Getty

“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.” Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- )

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

“The key to success in any endeavor is the ability to lead others successfully.” John Maxwell

“The bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.” William Ralph Inge

“Success is the child of audacity.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” Gen. George S. Patton

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.” Jim Rohn

“You have to honor failure because failure is just the negative space around success.” Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University, quoted in Wired Magazine

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” Thomas Edison

“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.” Nelson Boswell

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” Charles F. Kettering

“If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race.” Grand Heidrich

“You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.” Anonymous

“If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.” Robert Hillyer

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” Roger Crawford

“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.” Anonymous

“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” Dr. Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) Ukrainian chess grandmaster

“When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.” Louis Binstock

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” Bill Gates (b. 1955) American software magnate

“Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.” George Bernard Shaw

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.” Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychologist

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, you gain in strength and knowledge.” Joseph Sugarman

“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” Warren G. Bennis

“Individual success for the average person is a rather new concept in history, and an argument could be made that the United States was the first to bring it onto the world scene. . . . Europe has no tradition of ordinary people becoming successful. America has little else.” Barbara Sher

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan

Failing Does Not Make You A Failure--Giving Up Does. Anonymous

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

“Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.” Barbara Sher

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” Maureen Dowd

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

“You never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.” Dale Carnegie

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” Roger Staubach.

“Technique without ideals is a menace. Ideals without technique are a mess.” Karl Llewellyn

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.” Sydney Smith

“One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.” James A. Worsham

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American Scientist

“To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.” Charles Baudouin

“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.” Henry David Thoreau

“Nature gave men two ends—one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” George R. Kirkpatrick

“The common denominator of success lies in forming the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.” Albert Gray

“It is one of the paradoxes of success that the things and ways which got you there are seldom those things that keep you there.” Charles Handy

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi

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

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another.” Anonymous

“None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.” Chinese proverb

“You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.” Charles Noble

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.” Francis Bacon

“Be ready when opportunity comes. . . . Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.” Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

“You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. .... Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.” Sherman Finesilver, American Judge

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is, try to please everybody.” Herbert Swope

“Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.” George Tilton

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” Louis E. Boone

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver

“To improve is to change, to succeed is to change often.” Winston Churchill