Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

William Shakespeare

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Henry W. Longfellow

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Edwin H. Chapin

Impatience never commanded success.

Jospeph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Evan Esar

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

Earl of Beaconsfield

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Josh Billings

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.

Jeremy Collier

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Dennis Waitley

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Owen Feltham

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and PRESERVERANCE.

Aristotle Onassis

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

A. Branson Alcott

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

Christopher Morley

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed

Frank Loyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Cicero

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

Theodore T. Hunger

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

Euripides

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Virgil

They can because they think they can.