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Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.[Bill Cosby]

Quote:A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.[Germaine Greer]

Quote:I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.[Mother Teresa]

Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa]

Quote:A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.[Andr Maurois]

Quote:It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.[Herbert Samuel]

Quote:The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable 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 Eisenhower]

Quote:Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.[Mark Twain]

Quote:Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.[Michael Korda]

Quote:There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.[Colin Powell]

Quote:Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.[Stephen King]

Quote:In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.[Bill Cosby]

Quote:Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.[Thomas Edison]

Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison]

Quote: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 Kissinger]

Quote:With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured.[Mark Twain]

Quote:Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.[Henry Ford]

Quote:Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.[Henry Ford]

Quote: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]

Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau]

Quote:I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.[Booker T. Washington]

Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Quote:Eighty percent of success is showing up.[Woody Allen]

Quote:I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.[George Burns]

Quote: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]

Quote:It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.[Henry Ward Beecher]

Quote:The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.[Ayn Rand]

Quote:The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Quote:The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote: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]

Quote:The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.[Benjamin Disraeli]

Quote: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]

Quote:We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.[Henry Thoreau]

Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson]

Quote:Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.[Erna Bombeck]

Quote:All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.[Brian Tracy]

Quote:Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.[Truman Capote]

Quote:Failure is success if we learn from it.[Malcolm Forbes]

Quote:If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.[John Rockefeller]

Quote:The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.[Vince Lombardi]

Quote:A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote:There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.[Christopher Morley]

Quote:If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.[Albert Einstein]

Quote:Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.[Jim Backus]

Quote:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.[John F. Kennedy]

Quote:Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. [Cato the Elder]

Quote: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. [Cato the Elder]

Quote:Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy [Norman Vincent Peale]

Quote:All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. [Mark Twain]

Quote:To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. [Anna Quindlen]

Quote:Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. [Jules Renard]

Quote:The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. [Joseph Addison]

Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. [Bill Cosby]

Quote:Why be a man when you can be a success? [Bertolt Brecht]

Quote:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. [Albert Einstein]

Quote:If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. [Albert Einstein]

Quote:Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. [Albert Einstein]

Quote:Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. [Abraham Lincoln]

Quote:Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. [Don Marquis]

Quote: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]

Quote:We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? [Jean Cocteau]

Quote:The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. [Jean Giraudoux]

Quote:Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. [Arthur Rubinstein]

Quote:For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. [Richard Feynman]

Quote:A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. [Albert Schweitzer]

Quote:In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. [Rita Rudner]



Definitions of: success

Definition: Act of succeeding; succession.

Definition: That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.

Definition: The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.

Definition: That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.

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