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Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
– Phillip Adams
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
– Bo Bennett
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
– Bill Bradley
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Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
– Diana Rankin
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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
– Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
– Maya Angelou
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas A. Edison
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
– Jim Rohn
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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
– Don Shula
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The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
– David Sarnoff
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Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
– Bo Bennett
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
– Diane Ackerman
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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
– John Acton
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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
– Brian Adams
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One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
– Joseph Addison
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
– Amos Bronson Alcott
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
– Louisa May Alcott
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People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
– George Allen
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
– James Allen
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
– James Allen
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
– Woody Allen
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Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
– Woody Allen
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
– George E. Allen
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Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes.
– David Allen
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Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.
– Chris Van Allsburg
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
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Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
– Sparky Anderson
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PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
– Beatrice Arthur
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
– Mary Kay Ash
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
– Arthur Ashe
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
– Nancy Astor
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Truest SUCCESS is but the development of self.
– Charles Atlas
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
– George Matthew Adams
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
– Charles Kendall Adams
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In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
– Akhenaton
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
– Walt Alston
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This bikini made me a success.
– Ursula Andress
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Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
– Richard Bach
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
– Robert Baden-Powell
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
– Walter Bagehot
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I am a one success man.
– Tom Baker
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
– Tom Baker
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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
– Kenneth Baker
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If you are passionate and truthful, you find success. There are a more people who have lasted forever as actors earlier because films used to be character driven and now they are mostly plot driven. Much of the most delicate work being done today is on television. It often has the best acting because of their ability to be truthful.
– Alec Baldwin
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
– Ethel Barrymore
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I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
– Drew Barrymore
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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
– Bruce Barton
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
– Max Beerbohm
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In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
– Eddie Bell
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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
– Bo Bennett
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An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
– Bo Bennett
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Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
– Bo Bennett
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It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
– Bo Bennett
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Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
– Bo Bennett
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The concept of the good ol' days must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
– Bo Bennett
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Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
– Bo Bennett
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When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
– Bo Bennett
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
– Robert Bennett
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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
– Georges Bernanos
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Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
– Leonard Bernstein
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
– Allan Bloom
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As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.
– John Bolton
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
– Erma Bombeck
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
– Max Born
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I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
– Alain de Botton
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
– Bertolt Brecht
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I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
– Paul Bremer
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People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and go to the city, have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.
– Jimmy Breslin
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
– Charlotte Bronte
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The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
– Sarah Brown
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I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
– Charles Farrar Browne
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
– Robert Browning
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Every artist knows that at some point the gift he has will eventually be made manifest. He will, at some point, see the work he has done improve the lives of others around him. But I think every artist also realizes that time will go away from him, too. Success is a fickle companion.
– James Lee Burke
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If it goes away, the success that I've enjoyed has been way beyond my greatest expectations so I've nothing to complain about.
– James Lee Burke
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Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
– James Lee Burke
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There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.
– Leo Burnett
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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
– George Burns
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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.
– Barbara Bush
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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
– George W. Bush
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
– Roger Babson
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
– Jim Backus
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Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.
– Harry F. Banks
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Success is the ability to rise above principle.
– Gerald Barzan
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It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
– Shirley Bassey
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
– Vicki Baum
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
– Warren Beatty
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
– Dorthea Brande
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The three P's of success: passion, persistence and patience.
– Doug Bronson
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A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
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My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
– Gary Burghoff
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