| Topic |
Quote |
Author |
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| Success | "I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck." | Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem |
| Success | "If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average." | Alderson, M. H. |
| Success | "The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."" | Barcus, Nancy |
| Success | "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." | Bell, Alexander Graham |
| Success | "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." | Berlin, Irving |
| Success | "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." | Bernstein, Al |
| Success | "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows." | Bierce, Ambrose |
| Success | "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." | Bombeck, Erma |
| Success | "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." | Brinkley, David |
| Success | "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." | Burns, George |
| Success | "The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none." | Caldwell, Philip |
| Success | "Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." | Carnegie, Dale |
| Success | "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." | Carnegie, Dale |
| Success | "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." | Carnegie, Dale |
| Success | "Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law." | Chrusciel, John |
| Success | "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." | Churchill, Sir Winston |
| Success | "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam." | Churchill, Sir Winston |
| Success | "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." | Cosby, Bill |
| Success | "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." | Cosby, Bill |
| Success | "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." | Crisp, Quentin |
| Success | "The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." | Dali, Salvador |
| Success | "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." | D'Angelo, Anthony J. |
| Success | "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." | Daniels, Josephus |
| Success | "One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." | Disraeli, Benjamin |
| Success | "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year." | Dulles, John Foster |
| Success | "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." | Einstein, Albert |
| Success | "Success: 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!" | Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Success | "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." | Ewing, Sam |
| Success | "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." | Feather, William |
| Success | "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." | Fields, W. C. |
| Success | "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." | Finley, Charlie |
| Success | "There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."" | Fisher, Carrie |
| Success | "The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure." | Forbes, B. C. |
| Success | "Failure is success if we learn from it." | Forbes, Malcolm S. |
| Success | "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." | Frost, David |
| Success | "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." | Gates, Bill |
| Success | "Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil." | Getty, J. Paul |
| Success | "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." | Glasow, Arnold H. |
| Success | "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." | Glasow, Arnold H. |
| Success | "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." | Heller, Joseph |
| Success | "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." | Hubbard, Elbert |
| Success | "The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease." | James, William |
| Success | "Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." | King, Larry |
| Success | "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." | Lincoln, Abraham |
| Success | "Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage." | Luckman, Charles |
| Success | "No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed." | MacMillan, Harold |
| Success | "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind." | Maugham, William Somerset |
| Success | "It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail." | Merrick, David |
| Success | "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good." | Paterno, Joe |
| Success | "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." | Patton, Gen George S. |
| Success | "Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible." | Pence, James W. |
| Success | "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." | Perot, H. Ross |
| Success | "Action is the foundational key to all success." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Success | "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." | Rand, Ayn |
| Success | "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." | Roosevelt, Theodore |
| Success | "Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick." | Shames, Laurence |
| Success | "I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind." | Shaw, George Bernard |
| Success | "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" | Smith, Logan Pearsall |
| Success | "Success is dependent on effort." | Sophocles, |
| Success | "Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get." | Spacey, Kevin |
| Success | "That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had." | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Success | "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose." | Thatcher, Margaret |
| Success | "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." | Tomlin, Lily |
| Success | "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." | Washington, Booker T. |
| Success | "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." | Wilde, Oscar |
| Success | "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching." | Williams, Tennessee |
| Success | "Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." | Wilson, Sloan |
| Success | "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." | Wilson, Earl |
| Success | "Nothing recedes like success." | Winchell, Walter |
| Success | "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." | Winters, Jonathan |
| Success | "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." | Woodberry, George E. |
