Serena Williams

Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

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.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Losing is tough.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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