If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. – Ernest Hemingway
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. – Abdul Kalam
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. – Napoleon Hill
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. – Bo Bennett
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. – Samuel Smiles
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. – Marcus Aurelius
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. – Dale Carnegie
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. – Richard Bach
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. – Og Mandino
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. – Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. – Henry Ward Beecher
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. – Margaret Mead
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. – Henry Ward Beecher
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. – Pablo Picasso
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. – Henry Ward Beecher
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. – Arthur Ashe
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. – Marcus Garvey
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. – Thomas A. Edison
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. – W. Clement Stone