Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Chuck Norris

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Epictetus

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Robert Collier

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og Mandino

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Joey Adams

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw