"Success is to be measured
not so much by the position
that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles
which he has overcome
while trying to succeed."
-Booker T. Washington

"My mother drew a distinction between
achievement and success. She said that
'achievement is the knowledge that you
have studied and worked hard and done
the best that is in you. Success is being
praised by others, and that's nice, too,
but not as important or satisfying.'
Always aim for achievement
and forget about success."
-Helen Hayes

"Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success."
-Henry Ford

"I don't measure a man's success
by how high he climbs, but how
high he bounces when he hits bottom."
-General Patton

"Life affords no higher pleasure
than that of surmounting difficulties,
passing from one step of success to another;
forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
-Samuel Johnson

"Most people would succeed in small things
if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out..."
-Robert Collier

"To laugh often and love much,
to win the respect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children;
to earn the approbation of honest critics;
to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived ...
that is to have succeeded."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Without continual growth and progress,
such words as improvement, achievement,
and success have no meaning."
-Benjamin Franklin