Quotes about Success (page 5)

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“Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.”
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“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.”
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“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
VerifiedMark Twain's Notebook, 1887 · evidenceSuccess
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
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“Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.”
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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
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“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”
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“Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.”
MisattributedNot by Jimmy Durante. Earliest known source: Wilson Mizner, San Francisco Chronicle (5 July 1932). · evidenceSuccess
“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”
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“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
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“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.”
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“When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.”
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“There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”
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“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.”
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“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.”
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“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.”
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“One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.”
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“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Bill Cosby; no source in their known works. · evidenceSuccess
“Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.”
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“The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.”
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“Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.”
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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
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“Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
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“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
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“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
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“We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.”
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“From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.”
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