One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

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.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

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

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

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

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.

If you think you can’t, you’re right.

Success … seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren’t sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.