SUCCESS QUOTES V

quotations about success

When your ship comes in, if you are like most people, instead of being thankful, you will find fault with the captain for the delay.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure.

CONFUCIUS

The Doctrine of the Mean

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The dreams and hopes of men
Are powered by addiction
And who am I to say that
This is an affliction
When everybody gets
Suckered in and lives their
Lives like fiction
Writing their own story
Of success

GRAHAM PARKER

"Success"


The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease.

WILLIAM JAMES

letter to H. G. Wells, September 11, 1906

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There are two principles for creative success -- one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.

ERNIE J. ZELINSKI

The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It

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Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

CHARLES BUXTON

Notes of Thought


The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Shakespeare the Man: An Essay

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Any time you see someone more successful than you are ... they are doing something you aren't.

MALCOLM X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

THOMAS WILSON

Maxims of Piety and of Christianity

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Complete success alienates a man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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Success is a magnet that draws many followers.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Success is ever a bad tree when evil is the root.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Success is never assured, but having some challenges is almost always assured. Preparation to deal with those situations can reduce the hurdles and increase the prospects for success.

MARK KAPLAN

"Dealing with the certainty of change", New Hampshire Union Leader, July 9, 2017


Success demands paranoia.

JOSEPH FINDER

Paranoia

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall


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

Where the Blue Begins

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Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Success is buried on the other side of frustration.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

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You might discover greater success is just a matter of better channeling and projecting positivity about work.

CHRISTY RAKOCZY

"5 smart brain hacks to help you feel -- and project -- more positivity at work", Mic, July 10, 2017


Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q, August, 1992

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