Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

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.

To be prepared is half the victory.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

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

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.