Success always covers a multitude of blunders.
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
It’s lonesome at the top, but you do eat better.
People who say that something is impossible should not interrupt those who are managing to get it done.
Success is buying a Mercedes out of petty cash.
The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.
Few people ever carve their way to success with cutting remarks.
When we succeed, we have worked hard; when other succeed, they are lucky.
To be a success, sometimes a person must have enough courage to make a fool of himself.
The secret of success could be learning at an early age that you are not perfect.
You are only responsible to try—not to succeed.
Success is not how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Success is the ability to keep your obituary up to date.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Many a man can credit his success to the fact that he didn’t have the advantages others had.
Envy provides the mud that failure throws at success.
Success is sweet, but its secret is sweat.
A man rarely succeeds at anything unless he has fun doing it.
One of the biggest troubles with success is that its recipe is about the same as for a nervous breakdown.
The road to success is almost always under construction.
There aren’t any rules for success that work unless you do.
If at first you don’t succeed, try a little ardor.
The longest journey begins with a single step.
A person is successful when he has learned to live well, laugh often, and love truly.
When the elevator to success breaks down, your best bet is to take the stairs.
A successful man is the one who lays a foundation for his life with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Some people think they are successful if they can file for their social security before they file for bankruptcy.
Most people do what they are required to do; but successful people do a little more.
It is better to try to do something and fail, than to try to do nothing and succeed.
Success is putting your “knows” to the grindstone.
Success does not depend on external help so much as on self-reliance.
No man has ever hurt his eyesight by looking on the successful side of life.
If at first you don’t succeed, try something harder.
The reason some people are successful is that they put work and plans together.
The man who is a success does more than what is necessary and keeps doing it.
Success comes to those who make the greatest profit from the fewest mistakes.
An ounce of accomplishment is worth a ton of good intentions.
For success, try aspiration, inspiration, and perspiration.
Success is not an accident—it’s hard earned.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
A successful man is one with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary who does it.
Most of us measure our success by what others haven’t done.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
Attitude makes the difference between success and failure.
The road to success is marked with many tempting parking places.
When success turns your head, you’re facing failure.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Dissatisfaction without discouragement leads to progress.
All success is relative—the more success the more relatives.
If at first you don’t succeed, you are like most people.
You can be as successful as you think and as successful as you plan to be.
Those who itch for success must keep scratching.
If man goes through life and only earns money, he is not a success.
One should never be ashamed of small beginnings; it is the small growth that disappoints.
The successful man is the one who went ahead and did the things you had planned to do.
You don’t have to lie awake at nights to succeed—just stay awake days.
Most of us will never do great things, but we can do small things in a great way.
Success is doing what we like to do and making a living at it.
You cannot make a real success without making real enemies.
Prosperity is something created by hard-working citizens for politicians to boast about.
A man hopes that his lean years are behind him—a woman that hers are ahead.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
A genius is someone who aims for something no one else can see and hits it.
If a need persists, the solution exists.
Someone with a new idea is called eccentric until the idea succeeds.
You are successful when people tell you you’re a lot smarter than you really are.
If you believe you have no chance to succeed, you are probably right.
Success is not judged by what we start but what we finish.
Fame needs no fanfares.
No man every made himself a big noise by blowing his own trumpet.
If a person must announce his presence, it’s a sure sign he has not yet arrived.
Some men succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because they are determined to.
Success is the ability to get ahead of others and to get along with some people.
Late starters are seldom winners.
Solvency is the unanswerable argument of success.
You know a man is successful when the newspapers start quoting him on subjects he knows nothing about.
Efficiency is only another name for doing the right thing at the right time.
Success is when you are bored by people who once snubbed you.
Forget the past—no one ever backed into success.
The secret of achievement is not to let what you’re doing get to you before you get to it.
A successful man is usually an average man who had a chance or took a chance.
It’s better to deserve success than to attain it.
Success comes as a conquest, not as a bequest.
He who does not sacrifice is not likely to succeed.
We would all be successful if we followed the advice we gave to others.
Triumph is just umph added to try.
Past failure often furnishes the finest material from which to build future success.
Some men carve their way to success—others chisel.
The final six inches from success is between your ears.
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Aim high; it is no harder on your gun to shoot the feathers off an eagle than to shoot the fur off a shunk.