successI'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.
In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Speech of 1870-06-24
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.