951 private quotes tagged success

“No man ever achieved worth-while 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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“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.” — Aeschylus

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“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” — George Washington

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“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.” — Ann Landers

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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” — Henry Ford

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“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.” — Confucius

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“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — George S. Patton

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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” — Samuel Butler

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“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” — Napoleon Hill

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“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” — Logan P. Smith

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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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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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