"I didn't think that working hard and wanting something that's out of your control would be that bothersome to people. It was just really disappointing for me."

"If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. If we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward."

"What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world."

"Sometimes when I am alone in my beautiful apartments, brooding over these things and nursing my loneliness, I say to myself: "There are cases when success is a tragedy." There are moments when I regret my whole career, when my very success seems to be a mistake. I think that I was born for a life of intellectual interest. I was certainly brought up for one. The day when that accident turned my mind from college to business seems to be the most unfortunate day in my life. I think that I should be much happier as a scientist or writer, perhaps. I should then be in my natural element, and if I were doomed to loneliness I should have comforts to which I am now a stranger. That's the way I feel every time I pass the abandoned old building of the City College. The business world contains plenty of successful men who have no brains. Why, then, should I ascribe my triumph to special ability?"

"Success is walking a long road of failure and rejection with hope and perseverance."

"There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves."

"Success is not about being perfect, it's about being persistent **"

"Success is not wholly free from its hypocrisies. Often it comes to us disguised ; often we pursue the shadow of it while the substance is with us. Many have achieved success who deemed their lives failures; many failures have been made by those who regard their lives successful. It is altogether as men measure success; whether in wealth, virtue, fame, fashion, or wickedness. Aspiration leading to effort though attended by seeming failure, is sometimes success, while effortless success may be failure; for one carries with it improvement, development, increase of strength, the other weakness and decay."

"Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown."

"Success is not about how much you achieve, but about how much you inspire. **"

"Success isn't about being perfect, it's about being brave enough to try, even when you're scared. **"

"Success isn't about the destination, it's about the journey. **"

"I don't think that success has got anything to do with money — money for me isn't a way of keeping the score, so that's what it isn't."

"Don't be afraid to ask for help. We all need a hand sometimes, and that's okay.**"

"I believe success holds different meanings for each individual. However, one form of success, in my view, is when an individual can live the life they desire freely, following the path they have chosen. … Don’t let anything hinder you from reaching your goals and dreams."

"'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,— We'll deserve it."

"Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation."

"And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

"The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it can never possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments—success."

"A threefold cord is not quickly broken."

"Their strength is to sit still."

"Champions aren't made in gyms, champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,— The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him."

"When , the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."

"In my experience, real strength is sometimes quieter."

"The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments."

"As thy days, so shall thy strength be."

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure."

"Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line."

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

"In that day's feats, * * * * * * He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak."

"I feel like a Bull Moose."

"What strength!! But don't forget there are many guys like you all over the world."

"Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui."

"They go from strength to strength."

"I'm not weak — I'm too strong. The bracelets bound my strength to good purposes — Now I'm completely uncontrolled! I'm free to destroy like a man!"

"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic."

"And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous."

"When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood."

"The strong rules and the weak are their slaves — and no one is stronger than me."

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

"To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength."

"But strong in your good cause. Oh, ye are strong, If ye would know your strength!"

"Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent."

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition... But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."