Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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.
Bob Dylan (1941 - )
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough (1933 - )