success
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘success’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” -Ramana Maharshi
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“Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.” -Democritus
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“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” -Euripides
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“It’s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.” -Lena Dunham
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“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.” -George Eliot
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“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.” -Sumner Redstone
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“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.” -Deepak Chopra
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“I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.” -Alain Prost
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“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.” -Jimmy Buffett
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“The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.” -Gary Ryan Blair
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“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.” -John Ruskin
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“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?” -Fidel Castro
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“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” -George Burns
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“No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.” -Denis Waitley
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“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” -Samuel Butler
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“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.” -Joe Paterno
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“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.” -Dorthea Brande
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“Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.” -Epictetus
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“Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I’m enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I’ve truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.” -Danica Patrick
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“Every failure is a step to success.” -William Whewell
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“No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.” -Robert W. Service
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“I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn’t enough. I was exploding inside.” -Ingrid Bergman
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“Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” -Paul J. Meyer
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“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.” -Og Mandino
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“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” -Florence Nightingale
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“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” -Jane D. Hull
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“Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” -William Eardley IV
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“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” -Johnny Cash
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“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” -Louisa May Alcott
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“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” -William Pollard
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“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.” -Booker T. Washington
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“Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.” -Bill Gates
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“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” -Woody Allen
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“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” -W. Clement Stone
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“Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.” -Sigmund Freud
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“Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.” -Marcus Garvey
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“In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.” -Paulo Coelho
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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” -Wayne Gretzky
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“I’m an addict, I’m addicted to success. Thankfully, there’s no rehab for success.” -Lil Wayne
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“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.” -Pablo Picasso
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“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.” -Malcolm X
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“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.” -Mitt Romney
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“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I’m doing the work, the result doesn’t matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don’t, I don’t care whether the film is – you know – some big giant box-office bonanza and I don’t care if its a complete flop. To…
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“Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.” -Richard Bach
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“The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.” -Julius Erving
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“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.” -Margaret Mead
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“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.” -Napoleon Hill
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“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.” -Abdul Kalam
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“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.” -Charles Horton Cooley
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“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” -Helen Gurley Brown
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“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” -Nikola Tesla
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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” -Stephen Covey
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“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” -John Wooden
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“There’s no abiding success without commitment.” -Tony Robbins
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“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” -Coco Chanel
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“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.” -John Carmack
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“Personality is the most important thing to an actress’s success.” -Mae West
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“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” -Brian Tracy
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“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Every success story has a parent who says, ‘over my dead body.’ Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you’re acting the fool, ‘you know I worry about you sometimes.’” -Bill Cosby
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“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” -Henry Ford
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“Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.” -Jim Rohn
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“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” -George S. Patton
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“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.” -Steve Jobs
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“The only thing I’m addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.” -Charlie Sheen
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“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” -George Washington
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“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” -Colin Powell
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” -Bob Feller
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“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” -Babe Ruth
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“Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.” -Wayne Dyer
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“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.” -Confucius
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“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“Money and success don’t change people they merely amplify what is already there.” -Will Smith
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“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” -Mark Caine
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“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” -Doug Larson
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“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Success has always been a great liar.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain
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“Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first…
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“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” -Earl Wilson
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“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.” -Irving Berlin
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“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.” -Al Bernstein
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“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.” -Harold S. Geneen
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“Success doesn’t mean that you are healthy, success doesn’t mean that you’re happy, success doesn’t mean that you’re rested. Success really doesn’t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.” -Victoria Principal
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“It’s not enough that I should succeed – others should fail.” -David Merrick
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“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.” -Alan Price
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller
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“We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” -Swami Sivananda
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“It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.” -Carrot Top
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“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.” -Sloan Wilson
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“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.” -Emily Dickinson
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“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” -Logan P. Smith
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“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.” -Shirley Jones
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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.” -Aeschylus
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“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” -Sam Ewing
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“Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.” -Charles Luckman
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“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.” -Kevin Spacey
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“Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.” -Larry King
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“The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.” -B. C. Forbes
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“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” -Christopher Morley
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“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” -Ross Perot
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“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” -Jonathan Winters
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“If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed.” -Juliana Hatfield
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“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” -Maria Montessori
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“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” -Salvador Dali
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” -Joseph Addison
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“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” -John Foster Dulles
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“Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.” -Lydia M. Child
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“Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.” -Erma Bombeck
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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” -Ayn Rand
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“Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” -Winston Churchill
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“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” -George Edward Woodberry
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“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.” -William James
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“Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.” -Oscar Wilde
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“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” -Bob Dylan
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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” -Bruce Lee
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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley
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“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -Albert Einstein
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“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan
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“Don’t aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” -David Frost
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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” -Godfrey Winn
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“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” -W. C. Fields
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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” -Dale Carnegie
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