Acerbic adj. Sharp or biting, as in character or expression. “The director occasionally allowed an acerbic tone to an otherwise subtle dialogue.”

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. 

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

The road to success is always under construction.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

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