What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Success provides more opportunities to say things than the number of things a pundit has worth saying.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Nothing recedes like success.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Pubs make you as drunk as they can as soon as they can, and turn nasty when they succeed.

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.