- "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."
- Michael Korda
- "Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."
- Michael Korda
- "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
- Christopher Lasch
- "To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work."
- Sister Mary Lauretta
- "Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
- Norman Lear
- "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
- 16th US President, Republican
- "Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies."
- Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974)
- American journalist, Pulitzer winner
- "The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you."
- Mary Wilson Little
- "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."
- Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi (1913-70)
- American football coach, led Green Bay Packers to 6 conference titles
- "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
- American writer, best-known 19th century poet in US, "The Song of Hiawatha"
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