It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

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

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.