If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

 –Henry David Thoreau

Success has made failures of many men.

 –Cindy Adams

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

 –Eddie Cantor

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne’er succeed.

 –Emily Dickinson

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

 –Christopher Morley

Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

 –Bernhardt, Sarah

Success is the one unpardonable sin against one’s fellows.

 –Ambrose Bierce

Success is only a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

 –Earl Wilson

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

 –Albert Einstein

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist.

 –J. Paul Getty

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

 –Martin Luther King, Jr

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant – There is no such thing – Making your unknown known is the important thing – and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

 –Georgia O’Keeffe

Later on I learned, especially in school, to value “success” and to hide “failure” so that I wouldn’t be scolded or ridiculed. That wasn’t the way I had started out, when both were interesting and failure was sometimes more interesting than success because it raised more questions.

 –Barry Stevens

Well done is better than well said.

 –Ben Franklin

 

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

 –Winston Churchill

 

The saints are the sinners who keep going.

–Robert Louis Stevenson

 

I’m not the declining sort. I would take charge of the constellations if I were asked to do it. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

 –Mark Twain