Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
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
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
[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 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
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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
What will matter is not your success but your significance…. – Michael Josephson, from “What Will Matter” (poem), 2003, whatwillmatter.com
Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call “the breaks.” – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
