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The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.
LIN YUTANG, The Importance of Living
It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce. You--no one else! To achieve major success in life--to achieve those things that are most important to you--you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.
JACK CANFIELD, The Success Principles
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL, Sunday Times Magazine, Sep. 16, 1973
Success is identical with happiness only on condition that we have aimed at and attained those things in life which are really worthwhile, and--if success is to be complete--the most worthwhile. Any success which does not result in happiness, in some one of its varied forms, for self or for others, is a sham.
FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP, Success: A Course in Moral Instruction
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
WALTER LIPPMANN, A Preface to Politics
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
PABLO PICASSO, quoted in Gertrude Stein's Picasso
True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.
DEEPAK CHOPRA, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
BARBARA WALTERS, Newsweek, May 6, 1974
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.
GORDON PARKS, Voices in the Mirror
We sink to rise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
SÉBASTIEN CHAMFORT, Maximes et pensées
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, speech, May 15, 1854
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD, The Success Principles
The lucky or successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and self-confident, you will act successful. Define your goal or end result. Picture it to yourself clearly and vividly. Then simply capture the feeling you would experience if the desirable goal were already an established fact. Then your internal machinery is geared for success: to guide you in making the correct muscular motions and adjustments; to supply you with creative ideas, and to do whatever else is necessary in order to make the goal an accomplished fact.
MAXWELL MALTZ, Psychocybernetics
If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSON, Straight from the Heart
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN, Success
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
TOM PETERS, The Pursuit of WOW!
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires us to try.
MOTHER TERESA, Rolling Stone, Dec. 1992
The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them.
TIMOTHY TITCOMB, Lessons in Life
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
CHARLES BUXTON, Notes of Thought
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
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Where the Blue Begins
If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible.
FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP, Success: A Course in Moral Instruction
Success is a planned outcome, not an accident. Success and mediocrity are both absolutely predictable because they follow the natural and immutable law of sowing and reaping. Simply stated, if you want to reap more rewards, you must sow more.
TOMMY NEWBERRY, Success Is Not an Accident
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Summing Up
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
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
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
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