“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”

“Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.”

“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”

“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

“We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.”

“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.”

“I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.”

“I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.”

“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”

“Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.”

“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”

“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.”

“One fails forward toward success.”

“If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.”

“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.”

“There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?”

“I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.”

“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”

“There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.”