Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. – Ambrose Bierce
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. – Booker T. Washington
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. – Denis Waitley
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. – William Eardley IV
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. – Orison Swett Marden
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. – Denis Waitley
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. – Denis Waitley
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. – Orison Swett Marden
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. – Orison Swett Marden
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of audacity. – Benjamin Disraeli
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. – Epictetus
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. – Mignon McLaughlin
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. – Denis Waitley
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. – Henry A. Kissinger
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. – Calvin Coolidge
