SUCCESS QUOTES XIV

quotations about success

My problem is that I don't get the same exhilaration from success as I get depression from failure.

STEVE MARTIN

Time Magazine, August 24, 1987

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Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise.

ANONYMOUS


Success depends on one's general culture, on one's set of values, one's clarity of mind and vivacity. The thing to be most feared is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Harper's, 1961

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A common tendency is to set an almost unreachable standard for success while simultaneously creating a standard for failure that is easy to meet. As a result, you may routinely feel a lot less successful than is necessary.

TOMMY NEWBERRY

Success Is Not an Accident

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Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Confidence

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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

GORE VIDAL

Sunday Times Magazine, September 16, 1973

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Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Stellar Moments in Human History

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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Success causes us to be more praised than known.

JOSEPH ROUX

Meditations of a Parish Priest

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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

SIGMUND FREUD

A Childhood Recollection

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Success depends less on the general superiority of one's intellectual powers, than on their peculiar adaptation to the work at hand.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

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