David Brinkley

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

Pablo Picasso

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

Abraham Lincoln

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

George E. Woodberry

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

Dale Carnegie

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

David Frost

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

Erma Bombeck

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Malcolm Forbes

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

Dale Carnegie

"Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil."

J. Paul Getty

"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

Logan P. Smith

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

Jonathan Winters

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

Bill Cosby

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."

George Burns

"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

Quentin Crisp

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."

W. C. Fields

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

Bill Cosby

"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail."

David Merrick

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

Ross Perot

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

Harold MacMillan

"Nothing recedes like success."

Walter Winchell

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."

Elbert Hubbard