Quotes about success

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."

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"Success is a journey, not a destination."

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"A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune."

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"Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success."

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"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."

Thackeray, William M. on success   

"One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too."

Thatcher, Margaret on success   

"To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly."

Thibodeau, Robert on success   

"You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure."

Thoreau, Henry David on success   

"We were born to succeed, not to fail."

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

Thoreau, Henry David on success
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"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."

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"Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile."

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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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"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."

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"Success depends on our using, and not opposing..."

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"Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest."

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"Keep breathing."

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

Twain, Mark on success
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"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

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"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race."

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"There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends."

Twain, Mark on success
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"You already have every characteristic necessary for success."

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"Success is more attitude than aptitude."

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"Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started."

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"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."

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"Success is failure turned inside out."

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"The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning."

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"The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces"

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"Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure."

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"You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days."

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"The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success."

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"There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down."

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"You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU."

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"Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow."

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"Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody."

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"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."

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"Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some."

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"If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land."

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"If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures."

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"Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it."

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