951 private quotes tagged success

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Success is a great deodorant.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.” — William Ellery Channing

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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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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 will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.” — Bernard Meltzer

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“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.” — Anna Pavlova

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“You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.” — Percy Ross

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“I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.” — Peter McWilliams

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“I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.” — Hugh Laurie

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“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.” — Chuck Norris

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“Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.” — Victoria Principal

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“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.” — Robert Foster Bennett

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“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” — Samuel Smiles

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“In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.” — James Dyson

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“There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.” — Barack Obama

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“We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.” — Marco Rubio

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“I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.” — Mitt Romney

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“Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.” — Mitt Romney

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“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.” — Karen Armstrong

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“If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.” — Mitt Romney

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“My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.” — Barack Obama

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