I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody
Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, try to please everybody.
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. That is the secret to success.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Many of life´s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
There is no such thing as a self-made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success.
In Fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.
The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.
Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan.
At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
First must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?