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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
– Edward B. Butler
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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
– Charles Buxton
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
– Truman Capote
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
– Al Capp
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The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
– Donald L. Carcieri
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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
– John Carmack
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Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
– Andrew Carnegie
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I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making... certainly never one in manufacturing... who was interested in many concerns.
– Andrew Carnegie
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
– Dale Carnegie
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
– Dale Carnegie
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
– Dale Carnegie
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
– Dale Carnegie
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
– Dale Carnegie
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It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
– Karen Carpenter
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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
– Johnny Carson
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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?
– Johnny Carson
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
– William Ellery Channing
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
– Walter Chrysler
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
– Charles Churchill
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
– Jean Cocteau
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
– Jean Cocteau
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
– Edward Coke
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Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
– Robert Collier
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
– Confucius
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
– Cyril Connolly
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
– Charles Horton Cooley
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
– Calvin Coolidge
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
– Bill Cosby
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Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
– Pierre de Coubertin
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
– Stephen Covey
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Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
– Noel Coward
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Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
– Larry Craig
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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.
– Walter Cronkite
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Successful people breed success.
– Philip Crosby
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
– Mark Caine
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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
– Mark Caine
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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
– Mark Caine
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There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
– Mark Caine
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Financial success as a fine artist is largely a product of time, timing and marketing - assuming of course that good art is being produced all the while.
– Ken Campbell
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
– Vince Carter
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Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
– I Ching
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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
– Van Cliburn
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To dismiss front-end design as mere 'icing' is to jeopardize the success of any site.
– Curt Cloninger
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Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul.
– James Bryant Conant
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
– Salvador Dali
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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.
– Matt Damon
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
– Bette Davis
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The road to success runs uphill.
– Willie Davis
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There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
– Michael Dell
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Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.
– Michael Diamond
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Success is the child of audacity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Our success or failure won't be measured in charts or graphs or budget tables, but in the fulfillment of their dreams [people of Wisconsin].
– Jim Doyle
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
– John Foster Dulles
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Nothing succeeds like success.
– Alexandre Dumas
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
– Wayne Dyer
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It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right.
– Robert Lewis Dabney
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It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
– Arthur C. Danto
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The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.
– Terrell Davis
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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
– Cecil B. DeMille
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The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
– Thomas R. Dewar
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I attribute success to having the background of just loving the great stories of the world-and that's what makes the most successful films-combined with my trashy, vulgar appreciation of all that is modern Hollywood.
– Leslie Dixon
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No one ever excused his way to success.
– Dave Del Dotto
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
– Edward Dowden
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I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.
– Buddy Ebsen
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
– Thomas A. Edison
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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... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
– Thomas A. Edison
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The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
– Charles Edwards
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
– Albert Einstein
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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
– Albert Einstein
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.
– Albert Einstein
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
– Albert Einstein
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The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
– Albert Einstein
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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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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
– 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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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
– Euripides
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This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.
– Richard Eder
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
– Edward Eggleston
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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
– David Ellis
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A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.
– Jacob Epstein
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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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Success is the sum of details.
– Harvey S. Firestone
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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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The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
– B. C. Forbes
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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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