Success Quotes
There are not many famous names on this page. Shakespeare leads, then Steve Maraboli and Emerson, and most of the authors appear only once. The quotes with real citations are more interesting than the motivational ones: James Richardson’s “Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for” (Vectors, 2001), or Jean Ingelow in 1886 observing that if one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” is credited to Churchill almost everywhere it appears. No source has been found. One of the places it shows up is a 2003 book, with none given. It is on the Courage page too, with the same flag.
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own.
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.
When the shore is won at last,
Who will count the billows past?
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.