Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Success is dependent on effort.

They succeed, because they think they can.

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

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.