SUCCESS QUOTES VIII

quotations about success

Success is a magnet that draws many followers.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease.

WILLIAM JAMES

letter to H. G. Wells, September 11, 1906

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Success had ruined many a man.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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The successful man is the one whose images correspond most closely to reality, because then his actions will lead to the results which he imagines. A man's failures depend upon the fact that his images do not correspond to reality, whether he is dealing with marriage, politics, business, or the horse races.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

DONALD BARTHELME

"The Crisis"

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Human success is a quotation from overhead.

CHARLES H. PARKHURST

"The Patern in the Mount"

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Hyperion

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You create everything that happens to you.... If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life--that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

JACK CANFIELD

The Success Principles


Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

Success: A Novel

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You're bound to succeed if you have ignorance and confidence.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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The certainty of succeeding makes the road easy.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

JOHN OTWAY

attributed, London Sunday Correspondent, May 6, 1990

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

INFECTED MUSHROOM

"The Missed Symphony"


Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

BILL GATES

The Road Ahead

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Just and noble minds rejoice in other men's success.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

attributed, 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead

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Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

DAVID MAMET

The Secret Knowledge

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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

"A Chapter of Erie", North American Review, July 1869

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Success too often sanctions the worst and the wildest schemes of human ambition.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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