The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
- Irving Berlin
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
- Winston Churchill
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
- Quentin Crisp
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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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.
- John Foster Dulles
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
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There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
- Carrie Fisher
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
- David Frost
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates
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Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
- J. Paul Getty
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Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Arnold H. Glasow
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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasow
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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.
- Joseph Heller
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
- Elbert Hubbard
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I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
- William James
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
- Larry King
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
- Harold MacMillan
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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.
- William Somerset Maugham
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It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
- David Merrick
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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- Joe Paterno
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- George S. Patton
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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.
- Ross Perot
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand
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There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw
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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?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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Success is dependent on effort.
- Sophocles
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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
- Kevin Spacey
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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.
- Margaret Thatcher
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
- Lily Tomlin
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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.
- Booker T. Washington
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
- Tennessee Williams
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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.
- Sloan Wilson
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
- Earl Wilson
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Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell
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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
- Jonathan Winters
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George E. Woodberry
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