1. Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J. Paul Getty 

2. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Edward Everett Hale 

3. 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 

4. All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. - Herodotus 

5. Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take. - Christopher Reeve 

6. From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. - Samuel Goldwyn 

7. Nothing recedes like success. - Walter Winchell 

8. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. - Thomas J. Watson 

9. Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. - Julia Child 

10. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison 

11. Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. - Barbra Streisand 

12. Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H. Glasow 

13. Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. - Arnold H. Glasow 

14. Winning isn’t everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second. - Bear Bryant 

15. 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 

16. Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. - Tom Petty 

17. Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes 

18. Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. - Mitt Romney 

19. Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. - Bo Bennett 

20. There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. - Jim Lovell 

21. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. - Oliver Goldsmith 

22. Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier 

23. Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. - Paul J. Meyer 

24. The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. - Cyril Connolly 

25. Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. - Shah Rukh Khan 

26. Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexandre Dumas 

27. When you win, nothing hurts. - Joe Namath 

28. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Joyce Brothers 

29. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather 

30. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Jeff Rich 

31. 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 Pearsall Smith 

32. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Wilson 

33. I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. - Johann Sebastian Bach 

34. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. - Don Shula 

35. The one thing that I know is that you win with good people. - Don Shula 

36. The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin 

37. As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? - Charlie Sheen 

38. The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. - Howard Nemerov 

39. Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. - Mike Ditka 

40. The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. - Harvey S. Firestone 

41. Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. - Larry King 

42. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley 

43. It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. - Robert W. Service 

44. The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. - B. C. Forbes 

45. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. - Harold S. Geneen 

46. You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. - Michael Dell 

47. Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. - Kevin Spacey 

48. It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. - Carrot Top 

49. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles 

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

51. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry 

52. The secret of success is sincerity. - Jean Giraudoux 

53. Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. - Amos Bronson Alcott 

54. The real secret of success is enthusiasm. - Walter Chrysler 

55. In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. - Arthur Helps 

56. If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. - Sydney Madwed

 57. Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. - Sam Ewing 

58. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Elinor Smith 

59. Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. - Lillian Hellman 

60. If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. - Juliana Hatfield 

61. It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail. - David Merrick 

62. Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. - Al Bernstein 

63. Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good. - Victoria Principal 

64. Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. - Elias Canetti 

65. I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. - Christie Hefner 

66. To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. - Charles J. Givens 

67. After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. - Shirley Jones 

68. 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 

69. Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. - Charles Luckman 

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

71. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. - Lydia M. Child 

72. Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. - Anna Held 

73. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Bessie Anderson Stanley 

74. The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. - Joseph Barber Lightfoot 

75. The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. - Alan Price 

76. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - Benjamin Franklin 

77. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller 

78. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell 

79. It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. - Bill Gates 

80. I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. - Zig Ziglar 

81. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell 

82. The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. - John C. Maxwell 

83. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele 

84. It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. - Amy Tan 

85. Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication. - Dinesh Paliwal 

86. The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. - Confucius 

87. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau 

88. You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. - Zig Ziglar 

89. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. - Zig Ziglar 

90. If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. - Ernest Hemingway 

91. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - C. S. Lewis 

92. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. - Alexander Graham Bell 

93. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. - Henry Ford 

94. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden 

95. God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. - Joel Osteen 

96. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Niccolo Machiavelli 

97. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Pablo Picasso 

98. For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success. - Kanye West 

99. Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel 

100. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. - Susan B. Anthony