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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein


Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Paterno


If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. - Author Unknown


Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen


As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. - Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. - M.H. Alderson


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill


What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. - Gene Fowler


We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. - Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925


Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin


I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters


There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." - Carrie Fisher


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. - David Frost


Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. - Author Unknown


He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction. - Bessie Stanley, 1905, commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson





In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. - Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896


Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. - Larry King


Success has made failures of many men. - Cindy Adams


Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. - Donald A. Miller


Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. - Author Unknown


That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. - Robert Louis Stevenson


[Y]ou can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill (1883–1970)


Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. - Walter Cronkite


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


Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard




The requisites for success are the same in all classes of business: good judgment, application, diplomacy, executive ability, nerve, push, sticktoitiveness, integrity, a thick skin, and a pleasant smile. - C.A. Morse, "President's Address," Twentieth Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering Association, 1919 March 18th, wording slightly altered


The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease. - William James, 1906 September 11th





The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." - Nancy Barcus


Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. - Ross Perot





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





There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call "the breaks." - Countee Cullen (1903–1946)


Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather


There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley





To freely bloom — that is my definition of success. - Gerry Spence


The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin


Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Wilson





Success is 99 percent failure. - Soichiro Honda


Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. - Jonatan Mårtensson


Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. - Author Unknown





Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln


Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington


Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George Smith Patton


It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. - Author Unknown


How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? - Logan Smith


Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions — the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames





The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. - B.C. Forbes


Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. - Al Bernstein





If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. - Arthur McAuliff (Thanks, Fernanda)


If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp


If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. - Author Unknown


If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields


If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment. - Author Unknown