Success Quotes

“I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.”

-- Alexander McCall Smith

“Fame and success are very different things.”

-- Enya

“Success comes in waves.”

-- Guy Pearce

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

-- Winston Churchill

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”

-- Roger Babson

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

-- Tennessee Williams

“Success has always been a great liar.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”

-- William Osler