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Success Quotes


"I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success."


"The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy."


"We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success."


"Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes."


"Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."


"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."


"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."


"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."


"You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers."


"Hard work works harder than luck!"


"Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift."


"When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?"


"It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not."


"There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind."


"You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires."


"Having what you want may give you Achievement. But wanting what you have will give you Fulfillment."


"Life is like a magnet: success attracts and failure repels."


"Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution."


"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."


"When your vision is clear for your life, goals, and dreams, the confidence and assurance gained bear fruit to joy and peace."


"Success does not start at the top it begins by deciding to get up from the bottom."


"Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless."


"I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times."


"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."


"You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey."


"Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it."


"Success comes through small daily wins."


"Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers."


"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."


"The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation."


"Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."


"It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do."


"If you would devote your time to an activity even if you didn't receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny."


"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"


"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."


"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am."


"I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs."
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