Quotations about Success

  • As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure. — Mahatma Gandhi

  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. — Marcel Proust

  • If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. — Mary Kay Ash

  • It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept nothing but the best, you very often get it. — W. Somerset Maugham

  • In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. — Henry David Thoreau

  • It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • Success, remember, is the reward of toil. — Sophocles

  • Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. — L. Thomas Holdcroft

  • By the work one knows the workman. — Jean de La Fontaine

  • It is the nature of man to err, but only the fool perseveres in error. — Cicero

  • Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau

  • Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. — Claude Pepper

  • Your life is what your thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius

  • The obscure we eventually see. The completely obvious takes longer. — Edward R. Murrow