Success Quotes

“Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.”

-- Vera Wang

“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