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Success Quotes
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
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Nothing fails like success.
Gerald Nachman
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
John Blake
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
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People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
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For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen (1935 - )
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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.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
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 (1941 - )
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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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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 (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough (1933 - )
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller (1915 - )
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989), President of Yale University
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The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Johnny Carson (1925 - )
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams
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Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Michael Flatley, (Lord of the Dance) quoted by Eric Celeste
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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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
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
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When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
Rick Pitino, Lead to Success
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
