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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
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We fall forward to succeed.
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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Character is more important than intelligence for success.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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.
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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.
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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.
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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
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My definition of success is control.
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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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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.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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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. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
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Success makes success, like money makes money.
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.
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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
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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.
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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.
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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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The road to success runs uphill.
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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
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Success is not something you get out of what you do.
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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.
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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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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 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.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs