I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
- Edwin C. Bliss

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
- William A. Ward

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
- Roger Babson

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
- Carrie Fisher

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
- Ross Perot

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing can subtract hard work from success, only add to it.
- Manjunath Harlapur

The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
- Hamilton Holt

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
- Robert H. Schuller

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
- Stewart B. Johnson

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
- Brian Tracy

I hope I have convinced you, the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
- Helen Gurley Brown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas A. Edison

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
- Brian Tracy

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
- Michael Korda