Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.  ~Author Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.  Then give up.  There's no use in being a damn fool about it.  ~W.C. Fields

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.  ~Author Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.  ~Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.  ~Arthur McAuliff (Thanks, Fernanda)

The road to success is wherever people need another road.  ~Robert Brault,

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.  ~B.C. Forbes

Success and failure.  We think of them as opposites, but they're really not.  They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.  ~Laurence Shames

How can they say my life is not a success?  Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?  ~Logan Smith

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.  ~Author Unknown

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.  ~George Smith Patton

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.  ~Booker T. Washington

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.  ~Dale Carnegie

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.  ~Dale Carnegie

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.  ~Author Unknown

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.  ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Success is simply a matter of luck.  Ask any failure.  ~Earl Wilson

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.  ~Irving Berlin

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.  ~Robert Brault,

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

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

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.  ~Tennessee Williams

Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success.  ~Garrett Hazel

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

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."  ~Nancy Barcus

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS.  That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.  ~William James, 11 September 1906

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.  ~Elbert Hubbard

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.  ~Author Unknown

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.  ~Walter Cronkite

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.  ~Author Unknown

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.  ~Donald A. Miller

Success has made failures of many men.  ~Cindy Adams

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.  ~Larry King

I dread success.  To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship.  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.  ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Try to discover
The road to success
And you'll seek but never find,
But blaze your own path
And the road to success
Will trail right behind.
~Robert Brault

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.  ~Bessie Stanley, 1905, commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.  ~Author Unknown

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.  ~David Frost

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

I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it.  ~Jonathan Winters

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.  ~Lily Tomlin

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.  ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

What is success?  It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.  ~Gene Fowler

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.  ~Winston Churchill

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.  ~M.H. Alderson

As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.  ~Woody Allen

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.  ~Author Unknown

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.  ~Joe Paterno

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.  ~Albert Einstein

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley