Quotes: success
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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.
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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.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
1694-1773
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
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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.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Warren Bennis
American scholar, organizational consultant and author
1925-2014
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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William Saroyan
Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer
1908-1981
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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