Success Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Michael Dell,
Ben Stein
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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 |
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| Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. |
| - Aristotle |
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| People fail forward to success. |
| - Mary Kay Ash |
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| If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Why be a man when you can be a success? |
| - Bertolt Brecht |
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| Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. |
| - Dr. David M. Burns |
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| Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. |
| - Truman Capote |
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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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| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. |
| - Confucius |
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| It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. |
| - Michael Dell |
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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 |
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| Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. |
| - Bob Dylan |
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| The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| 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 |
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| Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. |
| - William Feather |
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| 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 |
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| The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. |
| - B.C. Forbes |
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| Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. |
| - Gene Fowler |
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| Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. |
| - David Frost |
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| Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? |
| - Kin Hubbard |
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| In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. |
| - Anthony J. D'Angelo |
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| 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 |
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| Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. |
| - Franklin P. Jones |
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| Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. |
| - Larry King |
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| Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. |
| - Henry Kissinger |
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| Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. |
| - Fran Lebowitz |
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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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| The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. |
| - Peter Lynch |
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| There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. |
| - George Smith Patton |
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| Underpromise; overdeliver. |
| - Tom Peters |
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| Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. |
| - American Proverb |
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| If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. |
| - Anna Quindlen |
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| Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. |
| - Anthony Robbins |
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| One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. |
| - David Rockefeller |
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| You always pass failure on the way to success. |
| - Mickey Rooney |
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| Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. |
| - Arthur Rubinstein |
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| A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| 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 |
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| How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. |
| - Gerry Spence |
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| It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| 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 |
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| A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. |
| - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi |
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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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| Men are born to succeed, not fail. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. |
| - Lily Tomlin |
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| All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. |
| - Miguel de Unamuno |
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| The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Individuals don’t win. Teams do. |
| - Sam Walton |
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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 |
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| If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. |
| - Thomas Watson |
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| Success is an individual proposition. |
| - Thomas Watson |
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| 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 |
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| Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. |
| - Earl Wilson |
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| I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. |
| - Jonathan Winters |
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| I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. |
| - Zig Ziglar |
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