Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Applause waits on success.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

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

We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.

When you've learned to love yourself, you get all the things that come with that. Friends, passion, success.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

Regardless of where life has taken me, I'm always excited to come back to Canada. I will forever be a proud Canadian. In fact, a lot of my success comes from the fact that I come from a diverse place, and that translates into my comedy. I will always be Team Canada.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.