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11/9/2007 7:34:00 PM quoteslover
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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 (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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11/9/2007 7:35:03 PM quoteslover
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)

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11/9/2007 7:35:19 PM quoteslover
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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

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11/9/2007 7:35:36 PM quoteslover
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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby (1937 - )
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan (1941 - )

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11/9/2007 7:35:53 PM quoteslover
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

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11/9/2007 7:36:11 PM quoteslover
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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough (1933 - )
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller (1915 - )

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11/9/2007 7:36:25 PM quoteslover
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957

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11/9/2007 7:36:47 PM quoteslover
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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

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11/9/2007 7:37:03 PM quoteslover
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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 (1874 - 1936)
Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time

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11/9/2007 7:37:19 PM quoteslover
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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11/9/2007 7:37:40 PM quoteslover
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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 (1888 - 1989), 1958

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11/9/2007 7:37:57 PM quoteslover
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
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 (1672 - 1719)
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

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11/9/2007 7:38:11 PM quoteslover
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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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11/9/2007 7:38:38 PM quoteslover
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Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley, (Lord of the Dance) quoted by Eric Celeste
You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka (1939 - )

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11/9/2007 7:38:56 PM quoteslover
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

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11/9/2007 7:39:13 PM quoteslover
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen (1935 - )

Re: Success

11/10/2007 5:18:27 AM sweetangel18
48 Posts

oh...thats true you've got the point!!! But for me succes is not measured by fame alone.Sometimes a very good change in life is already a big succes!!!

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11/10/2007 10:28:02 PM quoteslover
433 Posts

I agree with you and I also belive that we can't say succes is not measured by fame alone but we also measured on the other points of view too.

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