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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.

I care about our young people and I wish them great success because they are our Hope for the Future and some day when my generation retires they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security

Dave Barry

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

Four things for success: work and pray think and believe.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Things done well and with a care exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare

To be successful you have to be selfish or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Michael Jordan

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America, it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism' but what else can one call it?

H. G. Wells

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Michelle Obama

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success what shaped things how did you get to this point.

Steve Martin

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Denis Waitley

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our limitations and success will be based most often on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon the body acts upon.

Denis Waitley

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Malcolm Forbes

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up leaving more territory more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there giving it their best.

Zig Ziglar

For success attitude is equally as important as ability.

Walter Scott

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Bertrand Russell

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow

I call crony capitalism where you take money from successful small businesses spend it in Washington on favored industries on favored individuals picking winners and losers in the economy that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism that's corporate welfare.

Paul Ryan

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Vince Lombardi

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

In ambition as in love the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

George Eliot

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs no matter how successful it is because I didn't go to Harvard.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Orison Swett Marden

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to his nature at the time being, but whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty and should devote himself to its attainment not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies longings and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

James Allen

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Money won't create success the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Elbert Hubbard

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money, it's the talent and the passion that count in success

Ingrid Bergman

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Jim Carrey

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.

Ronald Reagan

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Audrey Hepburn

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Tennessee Williams

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Kahlil Gibran

Success is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.

Colin Powell

However things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

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

Brian Tracy

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

W. Clement Stone

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

Henry David Thoreau

You've been drafted into a war you didn't start ... Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depended on your success.

Warren Buffett

The more intense the nature of a man the more readily will he find meditation and the more successfully will he practice it.

James Allen

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mahatma Gandhi

I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Rush Limbaugh

Think twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Tony Robbins

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

Ingrid Bergman

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Brian Tracy

The best thing commercially which is the worst artistically by and large is the most successful.

Orson Welles

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best but what is easily within our power and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Ruskin

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance your prayers your sacrifice and he most humbly asks this of you.

Pope John Paul II

Constant success shows us but one side of the world, adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Washington Irving

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

The more tranquil a man becomes the greater is his success his influence his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

James Allen

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

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

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Jim Rohn

Don Winston Churchill

If success is a habit it is a hard one to acquire.

Mason Cooley

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.

Sai Baba

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus the brains of a Minerva the grace of Terpsichore the memory of a Macaulay the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Steve Jobs

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid don't look at it for the first two years.

Ernest Hemingway

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

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

George S. Patton

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

We can be successful leaders only if we are disciplined followers who do not issue commands to others but rather set an example of service in our actions.

Sai Baba

You did then what you knew how to do, and when you knew better you did better.

Maya Angelou

Nobody ever defended anything successfully there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

George S. Patton

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Emily Dickinson

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

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

Success is never final.

Winston Churchill

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

For unflagging interest and enjoyment a household of children if things go reasonably well certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track but weak anywhere else.

Orison Swett Marden

Money and success don't change people, they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

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

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

The road to success is always under construction.

Lily Tomlin

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

William Feather

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

William Feather

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men kindness and generosity openness honesty understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest sharpness greed acquisitiveness meanness egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Ingrid Bergman

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Tony Robbins

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth a high IQ or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Denis Waitley

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Donald Trump

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

My pride fell with my fortunes.

William Shakespeare

Here lies interred in the eternity of the past from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life which after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy and expired January 22d 1821 A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

Lord Byron

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Barack Obama
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