Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

He who thinks little errs much

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.