Quotes appeal to us on a variety of levels. They are short, they are pithy – they are bite size philosophical truisms that hit our souls quickly and incisively.

so, if you’re having a tough time sticking it out, or getting to that next level, take a look at some of my favorite success quotes:

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. – Larry King

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. – Scott Hamilton

The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. – B. C. Forbes

Success demands singleness of purpose. – Vince Lombardi

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. – John Foster Dulles

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. – Margaret Thatcher

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Goethe

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. – Oscar Wilde

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – George S. Patton

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it. – Jonathan Winters

Success is not a destination. It’s a journey. – Zig Ziglar

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. – Elbert Hubbard

Success is dependent on effort. – Sophocles

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. – Abraham Lincoln

Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso

Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage. – Charles Luckman

If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed. – Juliana Hatfield

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George Edward Woodberry

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. – Al Bernstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. – Irving Berlin

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. – Ayn Rand

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. – Arnold H. Glasow

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasow

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. – Salvador Dali

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good. – Joe Paterno

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. – David Frost

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Action is the foundational key to all successs. – Anthony Robbins

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Ewing

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. – Elbert Hubbard