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
What I have in common with the character in ‘Truman’ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim Carrey
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Denis Waitley
Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.
Deepak Chopra
No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George Burns
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
Alain Prost
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy
No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Robert W. Service
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett
The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Ann Landers
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’
Florence Scovel Shinn