Quotes on Success
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
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I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
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The common denominator of success - the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
Albert Gray
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don’t know the secret to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
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It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.†You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Sir Winston Churchill
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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success.
Brian Tracy
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain
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Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg
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The greatest obstacle to your success is probably you.
Frank Tyger
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Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you're the man who made them.
Frank Tyger
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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
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Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hammond
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
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No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill
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To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
Mark Sullivan
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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To be successful, you've got to be willing to fail.
Frank Tyger
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Nobody succeeds in a big way except by risking failure.
William Feather
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Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Napoleon Hill
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosphy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Charles Baudouin
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I look on that man as happy who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Stephen Covey
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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
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Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
Orlando Battista
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
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Success consists of a series of little daily victories.
Laddie Hutar
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Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser
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Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent.
Edouard Pailleron
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
Irving Berlin
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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.
John Wicker
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together - humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
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Successful people fail their way to the top.
Jeff Olson
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Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.
Jeff Olson
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
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The successful person is one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service.
Sol Roth
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it.
Walter E. Williams
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Your success and your happiness start with you.
Zig Ziglar
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success.
Albert Schweitzer
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The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.
Zig Ziglar
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Discover your uniqueness. Learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
Larry Winget
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You can't climb the ladder of success with cold feet.
Zig Ziglar
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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
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Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions, but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.
Nido Qubein
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Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one sees or appreciates.
Brian Tracy
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
Henry Ford
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Wealth, notoriety, place, and power are no measure of success whatever. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the thing we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells
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Success is not a secret - it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.
Larry Winget
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If a person can't summarize his thoughts on success in business into a handful of bullet points, he doesn't know what he's talking about. And he's scamming you.
Larry Winget
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While your friends want you to be successful, they don't want you to be more successful than they are.
Larry Winget
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If it starts to become complicated, then stop, regroup, and start over. Success is always simple.
Larry Winget
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Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.
Larry Winget
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The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness.
Orison Marden
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Brian Tracy
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The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.
Brian Tracy
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Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
Stephen Covey
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Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.
Brian Tracy
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce Brothers
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You should look upon failure and temporary defeat as part of the price that you pay on your road to the success that you will inevitably achieve.
Brian Tracy
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Successful people think about solutions most of the time. Unsuccessful people think about problems and difficulties most of the time.
Brian Tracy
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The two major obstacles to success and achievement are fear and doubt.
Brian Tracy
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Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
Anonymous
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
Brian Tracy
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
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Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.
John Maxwell
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Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
Grantland Rice
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
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When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic. It's not personal. If you want to succeed, don't let any single incident color your view of yourself.
John Maxwell
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If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough.
John Maxwell
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If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.
William Marston
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Show me a person who is a success, and I'll show you a person who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
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If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved.
Vic Conant
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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Og Mandino
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John Wooden
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas Alva Edison
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How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than 60 years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Smith
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The difference between success and failure is the difference between thought and action.
Praveen Sherman
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Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.
Stephen Covey
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Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run - in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
Viktor Frankl
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A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a predetermined job because that's what he decided to do, deliberately.
Earl Nightingale
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Success is not the result of making money. Making money is the result of success. And success is in direct proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
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You can actually develop a "positive addiction" to endorphins and to the feeling of enhanced clarity, confidence, and competence that they trigger. When you develop this addiction, you will, at an unconscious level, begin to organize your life in such a way that you are continually starting and completing ever more important tasks and projects. You will actually become addicted, in a very positive sense, to success and contribution.
Brian Tracy
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Being passionate about something is the key to success. But using that passion to help others is the key to happiness.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Success is something which is achieved by the minority of men, and is therefore unnatural and not to be achieved by following our natural likes and dislikes nor by being guided by our natural preferences and prejudices.
Albert Gray
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Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do.
Albert Gray
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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
Brian Tracy
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The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino
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Success isn’t about money or reputation or possessions or anything like that. Success is a decision. That’s all. Success is deciding what you really, truly want and committing yourself to getting it. If you’re making progress toward your desires, you’re successful.
Steve Pavlina
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In order to succeed in life, you have to make two decisions. First, you must decide what you really want. You have to get in touch with your truest, deepest desires, reaching the point where you're able to tune out anyone who would reject you for wanting what you want. Desire must be all the reason you need. Secondly, you must decide that you and you alone will make it happen no matter what.
Steve Pavlina
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Thomas Watson Jr.
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How successful you will be at anything is inexorably tied to the words and beliefs about yourself that you have stored in your subconscious mind.
Shad Helmstetter
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Don’t read stuff by people who got successful by telling other people how to be successful.
Brad Bollenbach
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If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
Charlie Munger
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch
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Success is the ratio of talents used to talents received.
Fred Smith
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
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What it comes down to is that success demands singleness of purpose. Some call it mental toughness; I think it is singleness of purpose and, once you have agreed upon the price that you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to forget that price.
Vince Lombardi
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The way to succeed is to identify your strengths and weaknesses, then seek goals that fit those strengths and weaknesses using tactics and strategies that take advantage of your strengths and sidestep your weaknesses.
John T. Reed
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Success doesn't come from bland acceptance by the entire world. It comes from the ability to inspire the few.
Scott Adams
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Always start out to give more than you get, to give more than is expected of you, to treat the other person more than fairly. And that is the secret to success. The more you help others, the more prosperous you will be personally.
John Templeton
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Orison Marden
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Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently pushing what's not working.
Derek Sivers
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Success is the peace of mind achieved when you know - in your heart - that you did your best at maximizing your potential according to your values. It has little to do with what others think of you.
Darvin Raph
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Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
Ray Dalio
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A resolute and resourceful leader understands that there are a multitude of means to increase the probability of success. And that's what it all comes down to, namely, intelligently and relentlessly seeking solutions that will increase your chance of prevailing in a competitive environment. When you do that, the score will take care of itself.
Bill Walsh
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I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.
Bill Walsh
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Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
Bill Walsh
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[T]iming is often the biggest component of success. And since timing is often hard to get right unless you are psychic, it makes sense to try different things until you get the timing right by luck.
Scott Adams
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When you decide to be successful in a big way, it means you acknowledge the price and you're willing to pay it. That price might be sacrificing your personal life to get good grades in school, pursuing a college major that is deadly boring but lucrative, putting off having kids, missing time with your family, or taking business risks that put you in jeopardy for embarrassment, divorce, or bankruptcy. Successful people don't wish for success; they decide to pursue it.
Scott Adams
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You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.
Timothy Ferriss
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