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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

Rahm Emanuel

Politician · American · b. 1959

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

Novelist · American · 1892 – 1973

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Tony Robbins

Author · American · b. 1960

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

Vice President · American · b. 1947

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

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Vincent Bugliosi

Author · American · b. 1934

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

Poet · Irish · 1730 – 1774

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Arthur Helps

Historian · British · 1813 – 1875

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Patricia Ireland

Activist · American · b. 1945

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Bill Bradley

Politician · American · b. 1943

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

Artist · Spanish · 1904 – 1989

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Educator · American · 1799 – 1888

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Elias Canetti

Author · Swiss · 1905 – 1994

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

Author · American · b. 1926

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

Ken Follett

Author · Welsh · b. 1949

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone

Businessman · American · 1902 – 2002

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Alphonso Jackson

Public Servant · American · b. 1945

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

Scientist · Canadian · 1849 – 1919

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Jose Marti

Activist · 1853 – 1895

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Abdul Kalam

Statesman · Indian · b. 1931

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Novelist · English · 1811 – 1863

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry A. Kissinger

Statesman · b. 1923

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thucydides

Historian · Greek

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Theologian · English · 1828 – 1889

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao Tzu

Philosopher

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

James Cash Penney

Businessman · American · 1875 – 1971

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

Jack Schwartz

Scientist

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Napoleon Hill

Writer · American · 1883 – 1970

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Russell Lynes

Critic · American · 1910 – 1991

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Artist · Spanish · 1881 – 1973

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Joseph Heller

Novelist · American · 1923 – 1999

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

Novelist · Irish · 1713 – 1768

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Tony Robbins

Author · American · b. 1960

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

Novelist · French · 1821 – 1880

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

Scientist · American · 1901 – 1978

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Poet · Greek

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Zig Ziglar

Author · American · b. 1926

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller

Businessman · American · 1839 – 1937

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

Historian · American · 1912 – 1989

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Ann Landers

Journalist · American · 1918 – 2002

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ellen Glasgow

Novelist · American · 1874 – 1945

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Novelist · American · b. 1949

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Pablo Picasso

Artist · Spanish · 1881 – 1973

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