Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. – Ed McMahon
When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you. – Christina Aguilera
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful. – Alanis Morissette
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. – Havelock Ellis
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. – Gustave Flaubert
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. – Ben Stein
Success is survival. – Leonard Cohen
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. – William J. H. Boetcker
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity. – Charlie Gonzalez
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. – Amos Bronson Alcott
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. – Alexander Graham Bell
People fall forward to success. – Mary Kay Ash
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really. – Treat Williams
Why be a man when you can be a success? – Bertolt Brecht
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. – Thornton Wilder
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. – Max Born
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you. – Bette Midler
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. – Sarah Bernhardt
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. – Jessica Savitch
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. – Charles Kuralt