I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - G. K. Chesterton. View more images...

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat. - Lisa M. Amos. View more images...

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something. - Ouida. View more images...

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. - Lloyd Jones. View more images...

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. - Aristotle. View more images...

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! - David O. McKay. View more images...

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. - Unknown. View more images...

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley. View more images...

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. - Jeffrey Archer. View more images...

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses. - Marlo Thomas. View more images...

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. - Neil Innes. View more images...

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. - Author Unknown. View more images...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - Thomas Alva Edison. View more images...

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. - William James. View more images...