Quotes about Success

• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 
• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. 
• If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. 
• Eighty percent of success is showing up.
• As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building.
• If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
• What is success?  It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
• We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. 
• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
• I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it.
• There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now.  I might as well take a nap."
• Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
• Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
• Success:  To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded! 
• Try to discover, The road to success, And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path, And the road to success, Will trail right behind.
• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. 
• I dread success.  To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship.  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. 
• Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. 
• Success has made failures of many men. 
• Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. 
• Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
• That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
• Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
• The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
• The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS.  That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
• The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."
• Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment.  As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility.