SUCCESS QUOTES VII

quotations about success

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

TOMMY LASORDA

The Artful Dodger

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

IRVING BERLIN

Theatre Arts, February 1958

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Yeah man
Before success can manifest
You got to go through the learning process

SCOOTER

"The Learning Process"


Success and failure are not dealt out like prizes and blanks in a lottery, by chance and indiscriminately; but there is a reason for every success and failure. Indolence, chicanery, waste will cause the one; while industry, honesty, and thrift will insure the other.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.

SAMUEL SMILES

Self-Help

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Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

DONALD BARTHELME

"The Crisis"

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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q, August, 1992

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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 a thought of fame.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Hyperion

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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

PABLO PICASSO

attributed, Picasso

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You're bound to succeed if you have ignorance and confidence.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

ARTHUR ASHE

attributed, Get Motivated!: Daily Psych-Ups

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Remember, success is buried on the other side of rejection. There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement


If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

BOB PROCTOR

You Were Born Rich

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The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease.

WILLIAM JAMES

letter to H. G. Wells, September 11, 1906

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There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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While success is necessary to happiness, it must be remembered that the term is a relative one; in other words, that there are many degrees of success, among which the highest are neither attainable by all, nor essential to felicity.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

BILL GATES

The Road Ahead

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Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit,
Clouds big with rain hang low,
So good men humbly bear success,
Nor overweening grow.

BHARTRHARI

"The Path of Altruism"

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