“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
“The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.”
“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
“There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.”
“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.”
“The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.”
“Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.”
“I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.”
“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
“I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.”
“There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?”
“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
“To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.”
“The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...”
“As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.”
“I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”
“Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”
“Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.”
“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.”
“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.”
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
“We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.”
“The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.”