Lily Tomlin

"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."

Joseph Heller

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it."

Sam Ewing

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."

Sloan Wilson

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

Bill Gates

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

Oscar Wilde

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."

Tennessee Williams

"Success is dependent on effort."

Sophocles

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

Dale Carnegie

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam."

Winston Churchill

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

George S. Patton

"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."

Kevin Spacey

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

Al Bernstein

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

Arnold H. Glasow

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

Earl Wilson

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."

Charles Luckman

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."

Ambrose Bierce

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

Booker T. Washington

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

Arnold H. Glasow

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

William Feather

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

Joe Paterno

"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."

W. Somerset Maugham

"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease."

William James

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

Ayn Rand