"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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. **"

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

"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."

"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."

"'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."

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

"They go from strength to strength."

"A threefold cord is not quickly broken."

"Their strength is to sit still."

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

"Everyone knows how compromised the idea of bureaucracy as a meritocratic system is. The first criterion of loyalty to any organization is therefore complicity. Career advancement is not based on merit but on a willingness to play along with the fiction that career advancement is based on merit, or with the fiction that rules and regulations apply to everyone equally, when in fact they are often deployed as an instrument of arbitrary personal power. ... As whole societies have come to represent themselves as giant credentialized meritocracies, rather than as systems of predatory extraction, we bustle about, trying to curry favor by pretending we actually believe it to be true."

"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."

"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 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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent."

"Plus potest qui plus valet."

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

"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."

"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."

"I feel like a Bull Moose."

"And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."