The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

There is no success without hardship.
- Sophocles

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
- Aristotle

Trying will do anything in this world.
- Theocritus

If you wish to be out front
Then act as if you were behind.
- Lao-Tzu

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.
- Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.
- William Longgood

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. - Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing succeeds so well as success.
- Prince de Talleyrand

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

The whole secret to a successful life it to find out what it is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
- Henry Ford

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
- Theodore T. Munger

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- General George S. Patton

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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