| "My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'" »Helen Hayes |
| "Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side." »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause." »Jeff Herman |
| "I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar |
| "success is neither magical or mysterious. success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." »Jim Rohn |
| "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 |
| "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there." »Irving |
| "She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all." »Paul Aubuchon |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure." »Joseph Sugarman |
| "Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage." »Sydney Harris |
| "success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success." »Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr. |
| "Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success." »James Gilmore Backus |
| "You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success." »Zig Ziglar |
| "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." »John W. Hanley |
| "success doesn't come to you...you go to it." »Marva Collins |
| "Nothing succeeds like success." »Alexandre Dumas |
| "success is never final." »Winston Churchill |
| "Nothing recedes like success." »Walter Winchell |
| "No one ever excused his way to success." »Dave Del Dotto |
| "Why be a man when you can be a success" »Bertolt Brecht |
| "The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows." »Aristotle Onassis |
| "success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Nothing fails like success." »Gerald Nachman |
| "Character is what can do without success." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "There is no disinfectant like success." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "success is a journey, not a destination." »Ben Sweetland |
| "success is never final, but failure can be." »Bill Parcells |
| "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." »Henry Ford |
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