SUCCESS QUOTES VIII

quotations about success

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

BILL GATES

The Road Ahead

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Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

DAVID MAMET

The Secret Knowledge

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Success too often sanctions the worst and the wildest schemes of human ambition.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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The secret of success is this: There is no secret of success.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


The successful man is the one whose images correspond most closely to reality, because then his actions will lead to the results which he imagines. A man's failures depend upon the fact that his images do not correspond to reality, whether he is dealing with marriage, politics, business, or the horse races.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

INFECTED MUSHROOM

"The Missed Symphony"


Confident expectation of success makes us a receiving instrument for all the success thoughts that are vibrating through the ether of the atmosphere, and our mind becomes a powerful magnet to draw success thought.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Success", Human Life from Many Angles


You create everything that happens to you.... If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life--that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

JACK CANFIELD

The Success Principles


Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

ALAN ARKIN

An Improvised Life

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Success had ruined many a man.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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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


Just and noble minds rejoice in other men's success.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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The certainty of succeeding makes the road easy.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Success demands singleness of purpose.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

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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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Human success is a quotation from overhead.

CHARLES H. PARKHURST

"The Patern in the Mount"

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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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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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We all love looking down
All we want is some success
But the chance is never around
It's all part of the process

MORCHEEBA

"Part of the Process"


According to the most common idea among men, he that makes the most money is the most successful. The standard so often adopted to measure or weigh everything by a money value is a false one. Money has its uses. The lack of it is hard to bear. But they are not the highest and best powers that are called forth in the acquisition of money. To amass a fortune is not necessarily the highest success. To miss a fortune is not of necessity a dismal failure. Poverty and scanty means are in no way or sense desirable, but we would make very emphatic and press upon the attention of youth everywhere that man's success or happiness is not measured by his bank account.

HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light