SUCCESS QUOTES XI

quotations about success

It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

DONALD TRUMP

Playboy, March 1990

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Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Unlimited Power: A Black Choice

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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 one has overcome while trying to succeed.

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Up From Slavery

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

SALVADOR DALI

Conversations with Dali

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Success is the child of Audacity.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

The Rise of Iskander

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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires a sorest need.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Success is counted sweetest"

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When things go well, you should be suspicious. When things go exceptionally well, start sniffing for the dog crap on the bottom of your shoe.

ROB THURMAN

Nightlife

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The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them.

TIMOTHY TITCOMB

Lessons in Life

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Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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There are very few cases of overnight success. Most success cases--including rock bands who seem to explode out of nowhere--involve longer term persistence and commitment to an interest.

PATRICK COMBS

Major in Success

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Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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Success is a moving target.

TIM WATCKINS

"What does success look like for Baylor football in 2017?", Scout, July 10, 2017


Nothing succeeds like success.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness

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What is success?
Is it do your own thing?
Or to join the rest
And if you truly believe it,
And try over and over again
Living in hopes
That someday you'll be in with the winners

BONNIE RAIT

"What Is Success?"


Success is an easy road (when gained).

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?

ROBERT BONTINE CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM

Success and Other Sketches

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Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own!

TOMMY NEWBERRY

Success Is Not an Accident


Success is identical with happiness only on condition that we have aimed at and attained those things in life which are really worthwhile, and--if success is to be complete--the most worthwhile. Any success which does not result in happiness, in some one of its varied forms, for self or for others, is a sham.

FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP

Success: A Course in Moral Instruction

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