What is success? There are many definitions, but there's one thing all the greats agree on: Success only comes by persevering despite failure.
Here are 50 quotes to inspire you to succeed in the face of failures, setbacks, and barriers.
- "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
-- Winston S. Churchill
- "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
-- Herman Melville
- "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
-- Colin R. Davis
- "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-- Henry David Thoreau
- "Opportunities don't happen. You create them."
-- Chris Grosser
- "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
--John D. Rockefeller
- "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
-- Thomas Jefferson
- "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."
-- Ray Goforth
- "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."
-- Jim Rohn
- "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein