Alexander Knox (Batman)

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I really believe that being in the moment is the key to happiness and success, and being constantly glued to your phone can have a big impact on your relationship.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence I and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That’s not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner.

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.