Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. --Winston Churchill (in Waiting to Unfold)

The one single factor that determines society's success is the percentage of change-makers within it. --Bill Drayton (in Bill Drayton: Half the Population is Out of the Game)

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. --Florence Nightingale (in Heroines of Health)

The hunter-gatherer did [their] shopping in the natural world...Success depended upon the ability to accurately read the innumerable variables which each season, day and hour presented. --Rupert Ross (in Perceptual Intelligence: Gathering Deep Knowledge)

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. --W.P. Kinsella (in Daily Phrases from the World's Happiest Nation)

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. --Aisha Tyler (in Never Too Late: Becoming a World Champion at 40)