Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
~ Dr. Marcus Bach

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
~ Jim Backus

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
~ M. H. Alderson

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
~ James Allen

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
~ Woody Allen

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
~ John R. Amos

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
~ Sparky Anderson

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
~ Dr. Robert Anthony

We fall forward to succeed.
~ Mary Kay Ash

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
~ Arthur Ashe

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
~ Harry F. Banks

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
~ Bernard M. Baruch

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~ Vicki Baum

Character is more important than intelligence for success.
~ Gilberte Beaux

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
~ Alexander Graham Bell