"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden
"Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success." - Bo Bennett
"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden
"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture." - Lydia M. Child
"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose." - Margaret Thatcher
"Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it." - Mitt Romney
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand
"As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?" - Charlie Sheen
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." - Erma Bombeck
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals." - Paul J. Meyer
"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." - Larry King
"Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it." - Michelle Obama
"It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline." - Harvey Mackay
"Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off." - Donald Rumsfeld
"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts." - John Wooden
"Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product." - Carl Karcher
"Success must never be measured by how much money you have." - Zig Ziglar
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist." - Mary Kay Ash
"As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person." - Chuck Palahniuk
"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful." - Malcolm Forbes
"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." - Joyce Brothers
"You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications." - James G. Stavridis
"My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing." - Matthew Gray Gubler
"If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want." - Willow Smith
"With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us." - Donny Osmond
"If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading." - Richard Lugar
"People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant." - Jennifer Jason Leigh
"People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success." - Jerry Gillies
"We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure." - Whoopi Goldberg
"There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families." - Clayton Christensen
"Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision." - Andy Stanley
"I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success." - Jean-Claude Van Damme
"The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape." - Philip Treacy
"On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing." - Sean Paul
"I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal." - Jerry B. Jenkins
"The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme." - Hassanal Bolkiah
"You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process." - Curtis Jackson
"Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market." - Douglas Conant
"Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place." - Annabelle Selldorf
"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat." - Ann Landers
"Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have." - Suze Orman
"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
"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success." - Sting
"Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil." - Joey Adams
"Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy." - Jonathan Sacks
"I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify." - Colin Farrell
"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups." - Jose Mourinho