Quotes about success

"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on success
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"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on success
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"If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average."

Alderson, M. H. on success
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"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

Allen, James on success
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

Allen, Woody on success
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"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."

Amos, John R. on success
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"Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field."

Anderson, Sparky on success   

"You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on success   

"We fall forward to succeed."

Ash, Mary Kay on success
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"Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1."

Ashe, Arthur on success
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"Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us."

Bach, Dr. Marcus on success
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"Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success."

Backus, Jim on success   

"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment."

Banks, Harry F. on success
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"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking."

Baruch, Bernard M. on success
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"Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."

Baum, Vicki on success   

"Character is more important than intelligence for success."

Beaux, Gilberte on success
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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

Beecher, Henry Ward on success   

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

Beecher, Henry Ward on success   

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

Beecher, Henry Ward on success
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"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."

Bell, Alexander Graham on success
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"The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

Berlin, Irving on success
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"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

Bernstein, Al on success   

"The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success."

Besant, Sir Walter on success   

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows."

Bierce, Ambrose on success   

"As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for."

Billings, Josh on success   

"When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure."

Binstock, Louis on success
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"Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success."

Binstock, Louis on success   

"Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness."

Binstock, Louis on success   

"Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle."

Bliss, Edwin C. on success
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"A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world."

Bok, Edward William on success   

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

Bombeck, Erma on success
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"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed."

Boswell, Nelson on success
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"My definition of success is control."

Branagh, Kenneth on success   

"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

Brande, Dorothea on success
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"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be."

Browder, Charles on success   

"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."

Brown, Bob on success
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"I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard."

Brown, Helen Gurley on success
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"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

Browning, Robert on success
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"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

Buck, Pearl S. on success