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There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

Frank Carlucci

Politician · American · b. 1930

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

Writer · French · 1885 – 1967

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

Elia Kazan

Director · American · 1909 – 2003

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

Poet · American · 1874 – 1963

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Michael Korda

Novelist · English

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Orison Swett Marden

Writer · American

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

Howard Schultz

Businessman · American · b. 1953

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

Poet · Greek

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

Author · American · 1880 – 1968

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Orison Swett Marden

Writer · American

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Willa Cather

Author · American · 1873 – 1947

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Carl Karcher

Businessman · American · 1917 – 2008

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

Donald Rumsfeld

Politician · American · b. 1932

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley

Author · American · b. 1905

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

Joan Blades

Businessman · American

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Guy Laliberte

Businessman · Canadian · b. 1959

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Pierre de Coubertin

Leader · French · 1863 – 1937

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Charles Kettering

Inventor · American · 1876 – 1958

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry A. Kissinger

Statesman · b. 1923

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Wayne Dyer

Psychologist · American · b. 1940

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economist · American · 1908 – 2006

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

James Larkin

Activist · Irish · 1875 – 1947

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Robert H. Schuller

Clergyman · American · b. 1926

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

Lawyer · American · 1916 – 1998

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Ford

Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Jean Kerr

Playwright · American · 1923 – 2003

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

William J. H. Boetcker

Clergyman · American

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

Walter Ulbricht

Politician · German · 1893 – 1973

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

Writer · English · 1908 – 1999

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

Novelist · American · 1923 – 1999

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

James Lane Allen

Author · American · 1849 – 1925

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

Robert Conrad

Director · Polish · b. 1935

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

Niklaus Wirth

Scientist · Swiss · b. 1934

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

William Ellery Channing

Writer · American · 1780 – 1842

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Novelist · American · 1819 – 1891

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Quentin Crisp

Writer · English · 1908 – 1999

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Paul J. Meyer

Businessman · American

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

George Jean Nathan

Editor · American · 1882 – 1958

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Peter Marshall

Clergyman · Scottish · 1902 – 1949

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

Daniel Libeskind

Architect · Polish · b. 1946

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Prince Charles

Royalty · English · b. 1948

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

Businessman · American · b. 1935

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Kenneth L. Pike

Sociologist · American · 1912 – 2000

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Napolean Hill

Author · American · 1883 – 1970

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

Critic · American · 1886 – 1963

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