Success

(45 votes)   I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(45 votes)   If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(45 votes)   If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle
1947-, American Politician, Vice-President

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(45 votes)   Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Bishop Herbert E. Welch

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(45 votes)   The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(45 votes)   To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(45 votes)   We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

John B. S. Haldane
1892-1964, British Scientist, Author

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(45 votes)   Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life.

Hugh McColl, Jr

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(44 votes)   Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Goldstein S. Truism

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(44 votes)   The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Alexander Graham Bell
1847-1922, British-born American Inventor of Telephone

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(44 votes)   When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Andrew Granatelli

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(43 votes)   A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(43 votes)   As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(43 votes)   It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Gerald R. Ford

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(43 votes)   One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Jack Penn

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