Every failure is a step to success.
—William Whewell
Working hard feels good. Of course it's exhausting and stressful and causes you to miss a party or two, but at the end of the day it is so rewarding. One of the best feelings in the world is when you know that luck didn't play a role in your success. Doing work eliminates the need for luck.
—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse
I used to feel like I was on the top of the world. Then one day, I noticed that it felt like I was no longer on the top of the world. I was just floating around inside of it. And then eventually, it felt like the world was on top of me.
—Colleen Hoover in Without Merit
Success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.
—Jill Shalvis in The Sweetest Thing
In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
—David Smith
Nothing fails like success.
—Gerald Nachman
And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.
—W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
—T. S. Eliot
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
—Steve Jobs