We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent PealeA woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis SimpsonOh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
William CowperA minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert BrowningLuxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee WilliamsSuccess usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David ThoreauOne man has enthusiasm 10 minutes, another 10 days, but it is the man who has it 10 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B ButlerMy life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
Judy GarlandPerseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAll that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
Dorothea BrandeA successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlinA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre MauroisI was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'.
Dick FosburySuccess is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar WildeMy own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThough a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity
Edward EverettThis bikini made me a success.
Ursula Andress'How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?'
Logan Pearsall SmithYou always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey RooneyIf you want to win the battle then you better have the better tanks, they can make the difference between success and failure in combat.
Heinz GuderianSuccessful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael LevineA strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett MardenI really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
Donna FargoYou are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyse your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W Clement StoneTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda MeirI have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan GreenspanThe success of the wicked tempts many to sin
PhaedrusThe magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Thomas J PetersI was confident that I would coach the England team through to a successful World Cup in 2007, notwithstanding the setbacks that we have had through the autumn
Andy Robinson I would like to wish Andy Robinson every success in his future career.
Francis BaronFollow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up, and you will achieve success in what you set out to do.
Rachel CorrieThe quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona AppleFor success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Sir Walter ScottDon't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David FrostBehind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho MarxI don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George PattonIt is now Steve McClaren's job to decide on Beckham's successor. He has a lot of choices that are more than capable of doing the job. It is very much up to him
Sven Goran ErikssonWhen our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.
W Clement StoneOften the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell MaltzI honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George BurnsTo burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter PaterSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill GatesThere is no merit in avoiding a fall by never climbing. The successful team is that which makes one plus one equal 11.
Sheikh MohammedGuessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
Hank AaronFor each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
Melvin CalvinWho often, but without success, have prayed for apt alliteration's artful aid.
Charles ChurchillIn Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
John CorbettLife is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed.
Corita KentIt's all about training and rhythm and getting it right on the day [on triple jump success]
Jonathan EdwardsWe climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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