“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”

“Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.”

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

“You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'”

“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

“I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.”

“I'm astonished by my success.”

“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.”

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

“The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.”

“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”

“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.”

“If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.”

“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”

“Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.”

“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”