If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Success has always been a great liar.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.