SUCCESS QUOTES VII

quotations about success

Success is never assured, but having some challenges is almost always assured. Preparation to deal with those situations can reduce the hurdles and increase the prospects for success.

MARK KAPLAN

"Dealing with the certainty of change", New Hampshire Union Leader, July 9, 2017


Remember, success is buried on the other side of rejection. There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement


Success and failure are not dealt out like prizes and blanks in a lottery, by chance and indiscriminately; but there is a reason for every success and failure. Indolence, chicanery, waste will cause the one; while industry, honesty, and thrift will insure the other.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


The secret of success is this: There is no secret of success.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

BOB PROCTOR

You Were Born Rich

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Yeah man
Before success can manifest
You got to go through the learning process

SCOOTER

"The Learning Process"


There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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The success of today may be the disaster of tomorrow and of other days to be. The failure of today may be an everlasting success.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"The Dead", Reactions and Other Essays

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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q, August, 1992

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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.

ARTHUR ASHE

attributed, Get Motivated!: Daily Psych-Ups

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It must be admitted that the pleasure of a long-sought, ardently desired success, dreamed of by night and toiled for by day, is, probably, as complete as anything this side of heaven.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

PABLO PICASSO

attributed, Picasso

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Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit,
Clouds big with rain hang low,
So good men humbly bear success,
Nor overweening grow.

BHARTRHARI

"The Path of Altruism"

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Success demands paranoia.

JOSEPH FINDER

Paranoia

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Success is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

BARBRA STREISAND

attributed, Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes

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The thing I remember best about "successful people" I've met is their obvious delight in what they do. And their delight seems to have very little to do with the trappings of worldly success.

FRED ROGERS

You Are Special: Neighborly Wit and Wisdom from Mister Rogers

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While success is necessary to happiness, it must be remembered that the term is a relative one; in other words, that there are many degrees of success, among which the highest are neither attainable by all, nor essential to felicity.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation

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