Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

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.
Norman Vincent Peale

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Norman Vincent Peale

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller