SUCCESS QUOTES VI

quotations about success

Success and failure are not dealt out like prizes and blanks in a lottery, by chance and indiscriminately; but there is a reason for every success and failure. Indolence, chicanery, waste will cause the one; while industry, honesty, and thrift will insure the other.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, February 1930


Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q, August, 1992

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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

VANESSA REDGRAVE

attributed, Good-bye Baby and Amen

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Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

DAVE RAMSEY

daily tip, official Dave Ramsey website


It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.

SAMUEL SMILES

Self-Help

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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Success is ever a bad tree when evil is the root.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Success never needs an excuse.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

speech, May 15, 1854

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JACK CANFIELD

The Success Principles

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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall

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We used to go out walkin' hand in hand you told me all the big things you had planned
It wasn't long till all your dreams came true success put me in second place with you
You have no time to love me anymore since fame and fortune knocked upon our door
Now I spend all my evenings all alone success has made a failure of our home

LORETTA LYNN

"Success"


In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure.

CONFUCIUS

The Doctrine of the Mean

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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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Remember that your real success takes place inside your mind. It's not facts, nor others' acts, nor events, that matter. Nothing matters in the long run but the temper of your spirit. Keep thinking success; and the more you are rebuffed the harder you must think it.

FRANK CRANE

"Ten Success Hunches", Four Minute Essays

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All successful men have agreed in one thing--they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. A belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing--characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one. The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Conduct of Life

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Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"

JULIE ANDREWS

This Week, September 18, 1966

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delicate moment
saw you again
leap year summer
presence drew in
flies of success
squandered about
ritual fashion
leaving no doubt
you were a hit
plain to see
busy boulevard
hidden street
I prayed lightly
weaved my path
raise no question
how I survived
the aftermath
but I see no reason to covet
cause I'm just thinking
it all seems so amusing
failure and success

SACCHARINE TRUST

"Success and Failure"


Success is a mix of sailing skill, grit, determination and improvisation; having to deal with broken yards, torn sails, capsizes and, in one instance, a rudder being washed away, not to mention the obligatory blisters, sand fly bites and sunburn that come with wild camping on deserted dessert islands.

ANONYMOUS

"Ngalawa Cup: The Nuclear Option", Scuttlebutt Sailing News, July 10, 2017