What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

19.

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

20.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

21.

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

22.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

23.

Success and money have nothing in common.

24.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

26.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

29.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

30.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

32.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

33.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

34.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

35.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

36.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

37.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

38.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

39.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

43.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

44.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

45.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

47.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

48.

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

49.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.