Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgment.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.