"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle

"To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big." - Aristotle

"All rising to great place is by a winding stair." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor

"Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas, père, Ange Pitou

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields

"If at first you don't succeed, cheat!" - Graffiti

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." - William Hazlitt

"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease." - William James

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

"I can give you a six-word formula for success: 'Think things through - then follow through.'" - Edward Rickenbacker

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will." - Frank Tyger

"If at first you don't succeed, don't take any more stupid chances." - Unknown

"Success is more attitude than aptitude." - Unknown

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." - Gore Vidal

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson

"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything." - Collins, Marva

"Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home." - Dhammapada, The (c300 B.C.)

"By the time we've made it, we've had it." - Forbes, Malcolm

"In school the external nightmare is internalized for life. Boris was not learning arithmetic only; he was learning the essential nightmare also. To be successful in our culture one must learn to dream of failure." - Henry, J. in 'Culture Against Men'

"If you have love you will do all things well." - Merton, Thomas

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people." - Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)

"Never think you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning." - Trollope, Anthony

"If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving." - Unknown