I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw
Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal. Don Shula
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. Edward R. Simmons
If at first you don't succeed, you must be doing something wrong. Charles Merrill Smith
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Oswald Spengler
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. Arthur P. Stanley
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. John Stevenson
Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. Sting
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and only eating the top half of each one. Barbra Streisand
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Jonathan Swift
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source. Publilius Syrus
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. Publius Syrus
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that 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 usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin
There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order. Italo Bombolini