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Success

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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.

Bush, Barbara

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Twain, Mark

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley