Success is the ability to live your life the way you want to live it, doing what you most enjoy, surrounded by people you admire and respect. In a larger sense, success is the ability to achieve your dreams, desires, hopes, wishes, and goals in each of the important areas of your life.
成功是一种能力，让你能够过自己向往的生活，做自己喜欢的事，与自己尊敬及喜爱的人在一起。从更广泛的意义上说，成功是在生活每一个重要的领域中达成梦想、渴望、希望，愿望和目标的能力。

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
成功的人是能够拿别人扔过来的砖头为自己垒砌坚强地基的人。

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that’s why I succeed.
在我的生命中我一次又一次地失败，这就是我为什么成功的原因。

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
成功很简单：在合适的时间用恰当的方式做正确的事。

Failure is success if we learn from it.
如果能从失败中汲取教训，失败亦是成功。

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
为了成功你必须失败，这样你就知道下次哪些事不要去做。

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
挫败并不是最糟糕的失败，不去尝试才是真正的失败。

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

为了成功，你对成功的欲望必须超过你对失败的恐惧。

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
几乎在任何领域，成功更多是依靠精力和动力，而不是智力。这也就是为什么我们有那么多愚蠢的领导。

收集英语名言的习惯还可以让我很自然地写出自己原创或改编的“名言佳句”：
Success comes from doing what you really love and what you are really good at. If you really love something, and if you are really good at it, you are less inclined to give up.
成功来自于做你真正喜欢的事，做你真正擅长的事。如果你真的很喜欢某件事，并且真的很擅长它，你就不会轻易放弃。

If you want to be successful, you'll have to be excellent at what you are doing. The better you are at your job, the more you will love it. The combination of love for your job and excellence will no doubt bring about the success that you have been longing for in your life.
如果想要成功，你必须要追求卓越。工作做得越好，你就越喜欢喜欢你的工作。喜欢你的工作再加上不停地追求卓越，成功将指日可待。

If you want to be successful, you need to make friends with your competitors who are doing something better than you, and then learn what they learned, do what they do, and keep doing it until you get the same results.
如果你想成功，你需要和那些比你做的好的竞争对手成为朋友，然后去学他们学过的东西，做他们所做的事，直至你自己也获得同样的成功为止。

Success is doing the same right thing over and over again until you become an expert in your field.
成功就是重复做一件正确的事，直至你成为所在行业的专家。

Success is about doing what you really love and what you are really good at, and being the best in your field.
成功就是做你真正喜欢的事，真正擅长的事，并力求在你所在的行业做得最好。