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Quotes about Success


Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Elbert Hubbard

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.

James W. Pence

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Joe Paterno

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Wilson Mizner

Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.

John Chrusciel

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

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

Success is when reality exceeds expectations.

John D. Gerhart

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

David Frost

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley

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

Success is dependent on effort.

George Bernard Sophocles

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Success has always been a great liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Mark Twain

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

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