We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. --Samuel Smiles (in Listening to Failure)

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. --David O. McKay (in Measuring Stick For Managers)

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. --Henry Ford (in Ivy Leaguers Play Chess With Inmates)

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. --Babette Deutsch (in Dr. Campo's Healing Words)

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. --Denis Waitely (in Aimee Mullins' Twelve Pairs of Legs)

If a woman can only succeed by emulating men, I think it is a great loss and not a success. The aim is not only for a woman to succeed, but to keep her womanhood and let her womanhood influence society. --Suzanne Brogger (in Solution to Poverty: Women!)

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. --John D. Rockefeller (in Anything is Possible)

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. --Henry David Thoreau (in What They Don't Teach in Business School)

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. --Henry Ford (in Facebook Friends Save Hermit Crabs)

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. --Albert Einstein (in If Santa Claus Was An Engineer...)

Success is ultimately about connection, not perfection. --Whitney Johnson (in The Essence of a Great Presentation)

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor. --Bill O'Brien (in Uncovering the Blind Spot of Leadership)

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly. --Israelmore Ayivor (in A 15-Year-Old Homeless Artist Rocks the World)

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. --Bill Gates (in Helping Kids Overcome Fear of Failure)

The key to success, the key to happiness, is opening your mind and your heart to love. ---John Legend- (in All In On Love)

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. --Henry Ford (in A Gang You'll Want Your Kid to Join)

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it. --Robert H. Schuller (in The Life You Could Save)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. --Henry Ford (in Moringa Project: An Improbable Project)

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. --Maya Angelou (in 3 Ways You Can Find More Happiness at Work)

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. --Winston Churchill (in How to Hardwire Resilience into the Brain)

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. --Winston Churchill (in Waiting to Unfold)

The one single factor that determines society's success is the percentage of change-makers within it. --Bill Drayton (in Bill Drayton: Half the Population is Out of the Game)

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. --Florence Nightingale (in Heroines of Health)

The hunter-gatherer did [their] shopping in the natural world...Success depended upon the ability to accurately read the innumerable variables which each season, day and hour presented. --Rupert Ross (in Perceptual Intelligence: Gathering Deep Knowledge)

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. --W.P. Kinsella (in Daily Phrases from the World's Happiest Nation)

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. --Aisha Tyler (in Never Too Late: Becoming a World Champion at 40)