SUCCESS QUOTES VIII

quotations about success

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

ARTHUR ASHE

attributed, Get Motivated!: Daily Psych-Ups

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The thing I remember best about "successful people" I've met is their obvious delight in what they do. And their delight seems to have very little to do with the trappings of worldly success.

FRED ROGERS

You Are Special: Neighborly Wit and Wisdom from Mister Rogers

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The certainty of succeeding makes the road easy.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

DAVID MAMET

The Secret Knowledge

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

BILL GATES

The Road Ahead

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Success had ruined many a man.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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Success and failure are not dealt out like prizes and blanks in a lottery, by chance and indiscriminately; but there is a reason for every success and failure. Indolence, chicanery, waste will cause the one; while industry, honesty, and thrift will insure the other.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

INFECTED MUSHROOM

"The Missed Symphony"


Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

DAVE RAMSEY

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Just and noble minds rejoice in other men's success.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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While success is necessary to happiness, it must be remembered that the term is a relative one; in other words, that there are many degrees of success, among which the highest are neither attainable by all, nor essential to felicity.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


JACK CANFIELD

The Success Principles

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If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible.

FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP

Success: A Course in Moral Instruction

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The secret of success is this: There is no secret of success.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


Success demands singleness of purpose.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

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Human success is a quotation from overhead.

CHARLES H. PARKHURST

"The Patern in the Mount"

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No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

BOB PROCTOR

You Were Born Rich

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Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

FELIX G. ROHATYN

Dealings: A Political and Financial Life

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If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, February 5, 1712

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