SUCCESS QUOTES XII

quotations about success

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

STEVE JOBS

interview, MSNBC, May 25, 2006

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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

ANNE SULLIVAN

letter regarding her work with Helen Keller, October 30, 1887

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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

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Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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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

Weekly World News, October 1, 1996

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What is success?
Is it do your own thing?
Or to join the rest
And if you truly believe it,
And try over and over again
Living in hopes
That someday you'll be in with the winners

BONNIE RAIT

"What Is Success?"


Success is a moving target.

TIM WATCKINS

"What does success look like for Baylor football in 2017?", Scout, July 10, 2017


The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

Tarr

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Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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I wrote a song about success, which I called "It Hasn't Happened Yet." Because success is never there. Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

WILLIAM SHATNER

Esquire, May 2012

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Nothing succeeds like success.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

MARK TWAIN

attributed, Unlimited Power

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Success is partly a matter of luck, and may be a question of cowardice. Just as cowards come back from wartime alive, so they may get rich and sleek and influential.

EDWARD HOAGLAND

Balancing Acts

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Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

JOSEPH JOUBERT

Pensées

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Success is an easy road (when gained).

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Success


There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

SMILEY BLANTON

Love or Perish

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How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?

ROBERT BONTINE CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM

Success and Other Sketches

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Success is somebody else's failure.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

Dancing at the Edge of the World

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