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Success |
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| "Self-trust is the first secret of
success." |
| -- R. W. Emerson |
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| “Of
course there is no formula for success except perhaps an
unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” |
| -- Arthur Rubenstein |
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"There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking
for them. Success is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from
failure, loyalty to those for who you work, and persistence." |
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--
Collin Powell,
US General, Secretary of State |
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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.”
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| -- Thomas A. Edison
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| "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, American cartoonist |
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| "Success is the progressive realization of a
worthy goal or ideal." |
| -- Earl Nightingale |
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| "Flaming enthusiasm,
backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most
frequently makes for success." |
| -- Dale Carnegie
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| "Success has ruined many a man." |
| -- Benjamin Franklin |
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| "Try not to become a man of success but
rather to become a man of value." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "It's just that fame and fortune ought to
add up to more than fame and fortune." |
| -- Robert Fulghum |
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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 (b. 1947), American NBA basketball player
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| "The
ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success." |
| -- Henry Ward Beecher
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| "The
common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and
self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most
part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and
bitter." |
| -- W. Somerset Maugham
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| "The reward of a thing well
done is to have done it." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "You must learn from your past mistakes,
but not lean on your past successes." |
| -- Denis Waitley |
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| "The secret of success is constancy of
purpose." |
| -- Benjamin Disraeli |
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| "Success generally depends upon knowing
how long it takes to succeed." |
| -- Charles de Montesquieu |
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| "For
a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as
greater than he is. |
| -- Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet & scientist |
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| "Success is not a position in
life, it is all those things that we have overcome to get wherever we
are." |
| -- Booker T. Washington
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| "Whatever
you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be
what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." |
| -- Sydney Smith |
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| "Failure is success if we learn from
it." |
| -- Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1880-1954),
American publisher |
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| “Success has nothing to do with what you gain
in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for
others.” |
| -- Danny
Thomas |
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| "Why should we be in such
haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep
pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and
far away." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau
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| "No
great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty." |
| --
George Eliot
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| "Success
is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage." |
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-- Charles Luckman
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| "The
three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard
work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
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-- Thomas Edison
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| "The ultimate of being
successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want
to do." |
| -- Leontyne Price, Opera Singer
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| "Success
is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your
enthusiasm." |
| -- Winston Churchill
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| "Men judge us by the success of our
efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves." |
| -- Charlotte Bronte (1816-55), English novelist |
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| "Seventy percent of success in life is
showing up." |
| -- Woody Allen, American writer, actor, and
film producer |
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| "The
toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a
success." |
| -- Irving Berlin
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| "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be
attracted by the person you become." |
| -- Jim Rohn |
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| "The road to success is always
under construction."
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| -- Arnold Palmer
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| "The secret of success is sincerity. Once
you can fake that you've got it made." |
| -- Jean Giraudoux |
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| "The only place where success
comes before work is in the dictionary." |
| -- Vidal Sassoon
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| "Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to
your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." |
| -- Swami Sivanada (b. 1887) |
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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 (6th century B.C.), Legendary
Chinese philosopher |
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| "Life has taught me not to expect
success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me
to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result
to God." |
| -- Alan Stewart Paton (1903-88), South African
writer |
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| "Coming together is the
beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is
success." |
| -- Henry Ford (1863-1947), American automobile manufacturer
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| "Success is peace of mind which is a
direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to
become the best you are capable of becoming." |
| -- John R. Wooden |
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| "Success, in a generally accepted sense of
the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the
maximum the forces that are within us." |
| -- David Sarnoff (1891-1971), American radio
and television pioneer |
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| "The way to succeed is to double your
error rate." |
| -- Thomas John Watson, Sr. (1874-1956),
American businessman |
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| "Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out..." |
| -- Robert J. Collier (1876-1918), Writer,
author |
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| "True
success is a feeling of accomplishment that you get when you know
you have achieved something special." |
| -- Albert
Emeron Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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| "I have learned this at least
by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his
dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common hours." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American writer, author, naturalist
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| "The most important
single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along
with people."
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| -- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th US President
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| "We must never be afraid to go
too far, for success lies just beyond." |
| -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer
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| "The secret of success is this: there is
no secret of success." |
| -- Elbert Hubbard |
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| "There is nothing more
difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in
its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to
things."
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| -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian political theorist,
writer
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| "The secret of success is to
know something nobody else knows." |
| -- Aristotle Onassis (1906?-75), Turkish-born Greek shipping magnate
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| "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 (1843-1916), American writer, critic
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| "He who has achieved success
has worked well, laughed often and loved much." |
| -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American author
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| "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 (b. 1923), Author, writer
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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."
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-- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born American theoretical
physicist |
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| "Character is what can do
without success." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American philosopher, poet, essayist
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| "Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln |
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| "Before everything else,
getting ready is the secret of success." |
| -- Henry Ford (1863-1947), American automobile manufacturer
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| "No one can possibly achieve
any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a
conformist." |
| -- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), American business executive
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| "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 (b. 1941), American
musician |
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| "Try not to become a man of
success but rather try to become a man of value." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born American theoretical
physicist
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| "Success is never
permanent, and failure is never final." |
| -- Mike
Ditka, American football player & coach
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"Success
produces success, just as money produces money."
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| -- Dianne Ackermann (b. 1948), American-born
writer |
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| “The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your
physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without
growing weary.” |
| -- Thomas A. Edison |
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| "There are only two ways by which to rise
in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of
others." |
| -- Jean de la LaBruyere (1645 - 1696) |
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| "The
logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our
perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other
men!" |
| --
Thomas Merton
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| “Some
[people] succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few
by what they are.” |
| -- Elbert Hubbard |
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| "Success usually comes to those who are
too busy to be looking for it." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau |
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| "If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend." |
| -- Joseph Addison |
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| "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." |
| -- Stephen Covey, American management guru |
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| "Successful people are always looking for
opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking,
"What's in it for me?" |
| -- Brian Tracy |
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| "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 lived.
This is to have succeeded." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "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 (1847-1922),
Scottish-born American inventor |
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| "Success, instead of giving
freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to
where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often
ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time
I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not
to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think
of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or
what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day." |
| --
Arthur Miller
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| "He
has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;
who has
enjoyed the trust of pure women, 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." |
| --
Betty Anderson Stanley
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