Quotes about success

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

Buffett, Warren on success
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"The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on success   

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."

Bush, Barbara on success
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"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."

Caldwell, Sarah on success   

"It takes twenty years to become an overnight success."

Cantor, Eddie on success   

"If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded."

Carlyle, Thomas on success   

"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

Carnegie, Dale on success
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"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day."

Carson, Johnny on success   

"There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action."

Casson, Herbert N. on success   

"Success makes success, like money makes money."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on success   

"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."

Chekhov, Anton on success   

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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear."

Coffin, Harold on success   

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."

Collier, Robert on success
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"Success doesn't come to you you go to it."

Collins, Marva on success   

"When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us."

Colton, Charles Caleb on success   

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us."

Colton, Charles Caleb on success   

"No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight."

Conwell, Russel H. on success   

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Cosby, Bill on success
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"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."

Cronkite, Walter on success   

"It's the men behind who make the man ahead."

Crowell, Merle on success   

"Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]"

Damon, Matt on success   

"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."

Davis Jr., Sammy on success   

"The road to success runs uphill."

Davis, Willie on success   

"To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer."

Degreen, Keith on success
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"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

Dickinson, Emily on success
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"I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things."

Disney, Walt on success   

"The secret of success is consistency of purpose."

Disraeli, Benjamin on success
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"Success is the child of audacity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on success   

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"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."

Disraeli, Benjamin on success   

"To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."

Dorsett, Tony on success   

"When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding."

Douglas, Mack R. on success
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"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."

Dulles, John Foster on success   

"Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down."

Durante, Jimmy on success   

"Success is not something you get out of what you do."

Dyer, Wayne on success   

"Success... it's what you do with what you've got."

Dyke, Leroy Van on success
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"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Dylan, Bob on success
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"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."

Edison, Thomas A. on success   

"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."

Einstein, Albert on success
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"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

Eliot, T. S. on success
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