SUCCESS QUOTES VIII

quotations about success

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


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 demands paranoia.

JOSEPH FINDER

Paranoia

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Success had ruined many a man.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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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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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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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 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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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


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

BILL GATES

The Road Ahead

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

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Human success is a quotation from overhead.

CHARLES H. PARKHURST

"The Patern in the Mount"

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The certainty of succeeding makes the road easy.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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

INFECTED MUSHROOM

"The Missed Symphony"


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Winston Churchill's Great Quotation Book: From Alamein to Zest for Life

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