I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. Walter Cronkite
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. Barack Obama
We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice. Apolo Ohno
The harder you work for something you love, the more meaningful your life becomes. Maxime Lagacé
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Disraeli
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. Joshua Waitzkin
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. Orison Swett Marden
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. W. Clement Stone
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson
We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. Mark Manson
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones
Do you really think you’ll learn and grow and achieve without failing? Maxime Lagacé
Obstacles are placed in our way to see if what we want is really worth fighting for. Unknown
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert B. Swope
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. Amos Bronson Alcott
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. Bo Bennett
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. Samuel Smiles
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. Bo Bennett
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. Charlotte Whitton
Real successful people are the ones who don’t even bother about obstacles because they know exactly what they want. Maxime Lagacé
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it. Glenn Beck
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. Graham Greene
Despite the successes, you remember the failures – rather lovingly. Harold Prince
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr
The road to success is always under construction. Lily Tomlin
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. Napoleon Hill
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe. Navjot Singh Sidhu
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. Rickey Henderson
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage. Arie De Gues
Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business. Anita Roddick
The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder. Ben Parr
If you delight your customers, you’ll delight your shareholders. Maxime Lagacé
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. Betsey Johnson
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. Bill Gates
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. Edward de Bono
Really liking what you do, whatever area that you get into, even if you’re the best of the best, there’s always a chance of failure. So, I think it’s important that you really like whatever you’re doing, if you don’t like it, life is too short. If you like what you’re doing, you think about it even when you’re not working, it’s something that your mind is drawn to. And if you don’t like it, you really just can’t make it work. Elon Musk
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. Erskine Bowles