Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

- Mark Twain, author

Jules Renard

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

- Jules Renard, author

Mark Twain

"To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

- Mark Twain, author

Arthur Rubinstein

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

- Arthur Rubinstein, composer and pianist

Albert Einstein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Herbert Bayard Swope

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

- Herbery Bayard Swope, editor and journalist

Thomas Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Edison, inventor

Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the USA

Winston Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

- Winston Churchill, former Primer Minister of Britain

Virgil

"They can conquer who believe they can."

- Virgil, ancient Roman epic poet

Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

Woody Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen, filmmaker, actor and comedian

Lao-Tzu

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao-tzu, philosopher

Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Heywood Broun

"The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins."

- Heywood Broun, journalist

Thomas Wolfe

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."

- Thomas Wolfe, author

Bruce Feirstein

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

- Bruce Feirstein, screenwriter and author

Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

James Yorke

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B"

- James Yorke, mathematician and physicist