A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning

Whenever I hear, "It can't be done," I know I'm close to success.
- Michael Flatley

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
- M. H. Alderson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.
- Greg Evans

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
- Reggie Jackson

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.
- Basil S. Walsh