The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. -- Alan Price
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. -- B. C. Forbes
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 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. -- W. Somerset Maugham