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

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.
- Jonathan Winters

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
- Charles Buxton

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
- Og Mandino

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
- Robert Schuller

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
- General George S. Patton

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
- Les Brown