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

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore, I feel free to take whatever risks I want.