A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.
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.
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.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
Character is more important than intelligence for success.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.