No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. Michael Korda
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. Ralph Marston
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. Pat Riley
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.' Donald Rumsfeld
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. F. Scott Fitzgerald
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. Jack Welch
Success is not in what you have, but who you are. Bo Bennett
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Steve Martin
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. Bo Bennett
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. John Maynard Keynes
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? James Allen
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles Kendall Adams
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion. Mason Cooley
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. William Hazlitt