Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950 Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986) 6. To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931) 7. If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Anna Quindlen (1953 - ) 8.