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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
– Epictetus
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
– Sam Ewing
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
– William Feather
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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
– Bob Feller
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
– W. C. Fields
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The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
– Harvey S. Firestone
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
– Malcolm Forbes
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
– Malcolm Forbes
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It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
– Gerald R. Ford
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Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
– Henry Ford
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
– Henry Ford
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
– Vicente Fox
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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
– Brendan Francis
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Applause waits on success.
– Benjamin Franklin
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
– Sigmund Freud
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Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
– David Frost
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
– Bruce Feirstein
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Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
– Michael Flatley
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The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
– Larry Flynt
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
– Harold S. Geneen
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
– Jean Genet
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
– J. Paul Getty
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
– J. Paul Getty
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
– Jean Giraudoux
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
– Samuel Goldwyn
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
– Samuel Goldwyn
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Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
– Eva Green
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
– Alan Greenspan
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
– J. Paul Getty
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
– Vince Gill
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Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
– Arnold H. Glasow
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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
– Thomas Hardy
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
– Sydney J. Harris
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
– William Hazlitt
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
– Sir Arthur Helps
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
– Arthur Henderson
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Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
– Audrey Hepburn
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
– Napoleon Hill
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
– Napoleon Hill
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
– Napoleon Hill
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
– Napoleon Hill
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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
– Napoleon Hill
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
– Napoleon Hill
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
– Horace
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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
– Elbert Hubbard
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
– Elbert Hubbard
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I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
– Kirk Hammett
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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
– Robert Heller
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
– Conrad Hilton
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Success is 99 percent failure.
– Soichiro Honda
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We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
– Derek Jeter
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
– Abdul Kalam
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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
– John F. Kennedy
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One fails forward toward success.
– Charles F. Kettering
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
– Victor Kiam
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
– Victor Kiam
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
– Larry King
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
– Michael Korda
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
– Herbert Kaufman
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The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
– Ann Landers
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
– Ann Landers
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
– Doug Larson
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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
– Tommy Lasorda
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
– Max Lerner
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I've had great success being a total idiot.
– Jerry Lewis
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
– Abraham Lincoln
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
– Vince Lombardi
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
– Vince Lombardi
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
– Charles Luckman
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
– John Madden
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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
– Maxwell Maltz
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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
– Nelson Mandela
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
– Og Mandino
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
– Orison Swett Marden
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
– Orison Swett Marden
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
– Orison Swett Marden
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
– Orison Swett Marden
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
– Orison Swett Marden
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
– Mitch McConnell
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Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
– Bryant H. McGill
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I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
– Peter McWilliams
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
– Margaret Mead
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
– Golda Meir
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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
– Bernard Meltzer
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Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
– Paul Meyer
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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
– Ashley Montagu
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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