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| Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. Nelson Boswell Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote Quotes |
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| Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. Ralph Charell Quotes |
| Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. Harlan Miller Quotes |
| The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
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| Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Edith Sitwell Quotes |
| The only successful substitute for brains is silence. Author Unknown Quotes |
| It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes |
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| The success combination in business is: Do what you do better...and: Do more of what you do... David Joseph Schwartz Quotes |
| 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 Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Vince Lombardi Quotes |
| Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. Anonymous Quotes |
| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. Bill Cosby Quotes |
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| To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a ga Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. Aristotle Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. Fran Lebowitz Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry Kissinger Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? Kin Hubbard Quotes |
| All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain Quotes |
| People fail forward to success. Mary Kay Ash Quotes |
| Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes |
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| A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning Quotes |
| Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A Edison Quotes |
| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. George Allen Quotes |
| The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, an Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
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| Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. Johnny Carson Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Nothing succeeds like success. Alexandre Dumas Quotes |
| Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes Quotes |
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| Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford Quotes |
| Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. William S Gilbert Quotes |
| Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Vince Lombardi Quotes |
| It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close. Joe Moore Quotes |
| If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
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| A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. Charles Schwab Quotes |
| The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. Dr Dale E Turner Quotes |
| Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. Dr Dale E Turner Quotes |
| A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T Washington Quotes |
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| You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. Zig Ziglar Quotes |
| Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan Quotes |
| Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. William Menninger Quotes |
| The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. William Lloyd Garrison Quotes |
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| This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. William Lyon Phelps Quotes |
| Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. William M. Winans Quotes |
| Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi Quotes |
| Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. Vince Lombardi Quotes |
| Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes |
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| Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. Vaclav Havel Quotes |
| Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. Vanessa Redgrave Quotes |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes |
| You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
| It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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| We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles Quotes |
| It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. Samuel Smiles Quotes |
| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| Self-trust is the first secret of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Richard Bach Quotes |
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| What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
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| Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| To succeed, we must first believe that we can. Michael Korda Quotes |
| To fly, we have to have resistance. Maya Lin Quotes |
| Conquer, but don't triumph. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach Quotes |
| To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways. Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes |
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| Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. Louis L'Amour Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin Quotes |
| Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher Jonathan Kozol Quotes |
| You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James A. Froude Quotes |
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| The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. John C. Maxwell Quotes |
| Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. J.C. Penney Quotes |
| If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash Henry Ford Quotes |
| The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert B. Swope Quotes |
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| I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller Quotes |
| It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Havelock Ellis Quotes |
| How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver Quotes |
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| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. Elaine Maxwell Quotes |
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| The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel Quotes |
| Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. Corita Kent Quotes |
| Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent Quotes |
| A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley Quotes |
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| Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes Quotes |
| The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein Quotes |
| Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. Chet Atkins Quotes |
| There are no gains without pains. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin Quotes |
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| He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.published 11/30/1905 in the Lincoln (Kansas) Sentinel - an adaptation of this is often attributed to Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson, though nothing like it has been found in his writings. Bessie Stanley Quotes |
| The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
| Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage. Arie de Gues Quotes |
| All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life. Barbara Jordan Quotes |
| If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. Alex Noble Quotes |
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| To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. Anna Pavlova Quotes |
| Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer Quotes |
| There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker Quotes |
| Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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| The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. Joe Paterno Quotes |
| If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. Author Unknown Quotes |
| As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Quoted in Quotes |
| If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. M.H. Alderson Quotes |
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| What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. Gene Fowler Quotes |
| We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. Miguel de Unamuno Quotes |
| I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. Jonathan Winters Quotes |
| There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." Carrie Fisher Quotes |
| Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. David Frost Quotes |
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| Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes |
| I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. Larry King Quotes |
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| Success has made failures of many men. Cindy Adams Quotes |
| Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. Donald A. Miller Quotes |
| Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. Author Unknown Quotes |
| That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
| Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. Walter Cronkite Quotes |
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| The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. William James Quotes |
| The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." Nancy Barcus Quotes |
| Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. Ross Perot Quotes |
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| Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. Garrett Hazel Quotes |
| Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. Tennessee Williams Quotes |
| Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather Quotes |
| There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley Quotes |
| The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin Quotes |
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| Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson Quotes |
| Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. Jonatan Mårtensson Quotes |
| Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| There is no success but your own success. Leslie Grimutter Quotes |
| Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Booker T. Washington Quotes |
| Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George Smith Patton Quotes |
| It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Author Unknown Quotes |
| 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 Smith Quotes |
| Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. Laurence Shames Quotes |
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| The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. B.C. Forbes Quotes |
| If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. Arthur McAuliff Quotes |
| If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp Quotes |
| If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Author Unknown Quotes |
| If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields Quotes |
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| I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. Kareem Abdul-Jabar Quotes |
| Success produces success, just as money produces money. Diane Ackerman Quotes |
| There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. George Burton Adams Quotes |
| Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity. Joey Adams Quotes |
| Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. Scott Adams Quotes |
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| One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. Æschylus Quotes |
| I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual. John Fellows Akers Quotes |
| In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. Akhenaton Quotes |
| A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Hoshang N. Akhtar Quotes |
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| The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success. Kurt Herbert Alder Quotes |
| If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. M. H. Alderson Quotes |
| 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. Rodan of Alexandria Quotes |
| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. George Herbert Allen Quotes |
| If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou Quotes |
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| Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Edith Ann Quotes |
| 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 Antoninus Quotes |
| I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream. John A. Appleman Quotes |
| Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. Quotes |
| She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all. Paul Aubuchon Quotes |
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| The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. Sri da Avabhas Quotes |
| Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes |
| Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. James Gilmore Backus Quotes |
| The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. George Baker Quotes |
| Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes |
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| If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night. Dicky Barrett Quotes |
| During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes |
| Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes |
| The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes |
| To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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| It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on The Foundation of morality. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. Robert F. Bennett Quotes |
| Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. Leonard Bernstein Quotes |
| I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. Josh Billings Quotes |
| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. William Blake Quotes |
| The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Hartley Blanchard Quotes |
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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. Smiley Blanton Quotes |
| The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul. Smiley Blanton Quotes |
| Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. Robert Albert Bloch Quotes |
| I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. Derek Curtis Bok Quotes |
| People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
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| Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| There is no disinfectant like success. Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin Quotes |
| The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes |
| A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. John Christian Bovee Quotes |
| 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 towards success. Dorthea Bragg Quotes |
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| Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. Stephen A. Brennan Quotes |
| Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. Barnett Brickner Quotes |
| A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David McClure Brinkley Quotes |
| Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte Quotes |
| The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. Van Wyck Brooks Quotes |
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| Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
| Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
| The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
| A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning Quotes |
| The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
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| The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes |
| The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| 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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person. Dr. David M. Burns Quotes |
| I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns Quotes |
| I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. George Burns Quotes |
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| Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes |
| The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. Philip Caldwell Quotes |
| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus Quotes |
| It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor Quotes |
| Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. Al Capp Quotes |
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| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| Success produces success, just as money produces money. Nicolas Chamfort Quotes |
| The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. Frederick Chiluba Quotes |
| Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. I Ching Quotes |
| Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is The Foundation of all actions. I Ching Quotes |
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| Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| Success is never final. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
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| The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building. Robert J. Collier Quotes |
| Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... Robert J. Collier Quotes |
| Success doesn't come to you...you go to it. Marva Collins Quotes |
| To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. Confucius Quotes |
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| Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. 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 are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. (John) Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| 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. (John) Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby Quotes |
| An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. M. Shawn Covey Quotes |
| Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return. Samuel Cunningham Quotes |
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| If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one! Richard M. Devos Quotes |
| Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey Quotes |
| Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Quotes |
| If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed. Dan Dierdorf Quotes |
| The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Quotes |
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| Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Quotes |
| Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Quotes |
| The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Quotes |
| As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Quotes |
| Success is never permanent, and failure is never final. Mike Ditka Quotes |
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| To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett Quotes |
| No one ever excused his way to success. Dave Del Dotto Quotes |
| For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things: Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does. Cathleen Douglas Quotes |
| Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F(erdinand) Drucker Quotes |
| A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between; does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan Quotes |
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| To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. Bernard Edmonds Quotes |
| To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards Quotes |
| Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. Edward Eggleston Quotes |
| The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| 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 David Eisenhower Quotes |
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| Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. Michael Eisner Quotes |
| Character is what can do without success. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people. Marsha Evans Quotes |
| Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. Sam Ewing Quotes |
| Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Faulkner Quotes |
| It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. Harvey Samuel Firestone Quotes |
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| There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap. Carrie Quotes |
| Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Quotes |
| It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president) Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes. Harrison Ford Quotes |
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| Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford Quotes |
| The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? Brendan Francis Quotes |
| Management: An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed. Paulson Frenckner Quotes |
| Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm Quotes |
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| Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. Michael J. Gelb Quotes |
| No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. J(ean) Paul Getty Quotes |
| Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. William S. Gilbert Quotes |
| Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Quotes |
| If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough Quotes |
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| A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. Sidney Greenberg Quotes |
| Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances. B. J. Gupta Quotes |
| Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind. John W. Hanley Quotes |
| Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. Frances Watkins Harper Quotes |
| Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. Edward H. Harriman Quotes |
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| Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. Richard Harris Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Václav Havel Quotes |
| Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. Helen Hayes Quotes |
| Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. Joseph Heller Quotes |
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| Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause. Jeff Herman Quotes |
| The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. Cullen Hightower Quotes |
| Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napolean Hill Quotes |
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| Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton Quotes |
| There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes |
| I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. Tom Hopkins Quotes |
| Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. A. E. Hotchner Quotes |
| Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day. Vernon Howard Quotes |
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| He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? Kim Hubbard Quotes |
| Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
| Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes |
| The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? Henry James Quotes |
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| I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil William James Quotes |
| Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. William James Quotes |
| There are no speed limits on the road to success. David W. Johnson Quotes |
| Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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| Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success. Pete Johnson Quotes |
| The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones Quotes |
| Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. Erica Mann Jong Quotes |
| If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success. John Van de Kamp Quotes |
| Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman Quotes |
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| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Adams Keller Quotes |
| Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Adams Keller Quotes |
| The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Donald Kendall Quotes |
| When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication? John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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| An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Charles Franklin Kettering Quotes |
| Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
| No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. Michael Korda Quotes |
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| People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. Lao-Tzu Quotes |
| Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. Christopher Lasch Quotes |
| To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work. Sister Mary Lauretta Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. Mary Wilson Little Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
| Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
| Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
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| The pride of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. Harold Loukes Quotes |
| Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' Clare Boothe Luce Quotes |
| Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. Charles Luckman Quotes |
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| In order to become successful, you must only promise what you can deliver and deliver more than what you've promised. Beau K. Ly Quotes |
| 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 to things. Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that … the ghosts you chase you never catch. John Malkovich Quotes |
| I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. Og Mandino Quotes |
| The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Og Mandino Quotes |
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| When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success. Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
| Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
| The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Donald Robert Perry Marquis Quotes |
| 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. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel. W(illiam) Somerset Maugham Quotes |
| Saying we should keep the two-party [political] system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. Eugene J. McCarthy Quotes |
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| Without question, reading has been The Foundation of whatever success I've had in my life. Hugh McColl, Jr. Quotes |
| Real success is finding your lifework in the worth that you love. David McCullough Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. Larry McMurty Quotes |
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| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville Quotes |
| The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. Aubrey Menen Quotes |
| Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. Dr. William Claire Menninger Quotes |
| Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, Worthwhile, Personal Goals. Paul Meyer Quotes |
| The road to success is always under construction. Jim Miller Quotes |
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| France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. François Maurice Mitterrand Quotes |
| The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. Wilson Mizner Quotes |
| If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it. Robert Montgomery Quotes |
| It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close. Joe Moore Quotes |
| There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. Christopher Darlington Morley Quotes |
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| If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that? Not really [McCarthy's]. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully. Edward R(oscoe) Murrow Quotes |
| It is as hard to take success as it is failure. Louise Nevelson Quotes |
| The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. Sir Harold George Nicolson Quotes |
| The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Earl Nightingale Quotes |
| Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale Quotes |
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| Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped. Earl Nightingale Quotes |
| Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit … The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| She wore too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it [modern journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. Groucho Marx Quotes |
| Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you, he really is an idiot. Groucho Marx Quotes |
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| I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it! Groucho Marx Quotes |
| You're the reason our kids are so ugly. Groucho Marx Quotes |
| He's a male chauvinistic piglet. Groucho Marx Quotes |
| Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world. Groucho Marx Quotes |
| Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you? Groucho Marx Quotes |
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| I could dance with you until the cows come home... on second thoughts, I'll dance with the cows and you go home. Groucho Marx Quotes |
| His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. H.G. Wells Quotes |
| You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. H.G. Wells Quotes |
| Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Douglas Adams Quotes |
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| Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits.... It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him. Henry Ford Quotes |
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| Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral. Henry Ford Quotes |
| Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks Quotes |
| The cover of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| If this is tea, please bring me some coffee... but if this is coffee, please bring me some tea. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back? Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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| Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain Quotes |
| I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed... Mark Twain Quotes |
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| Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain Quotes |
| I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. Woody Allen Quotes |
| If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. Woody Allen Quotes |
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| Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Dustin Farnum: "I've never been better! In the last act yesterday, I had the audience glued to their seats."
Oliver Herford: "How clever of you to think of it."
O, she is the antidote to desire. William Congreve Quotes |
| Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. William Congreve Quotes |
| What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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| Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? Author Unknown Quotes |
| Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak. Author Unknown Quotes |
| We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart? Author Unknown Quotes |
| A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Don't expect anything original from an echo. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: "Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me." "You lose," Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Life is simple, its just not easy. Author Unknown Quotes |
| As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. |
