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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Journalist · Polish · b. 1932

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Edward Carpenter

Activist · English · 1844 – 1929

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Writer · American · 1888 – 1955

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

Psychologist · American · b. 1928

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist · Russian · 1821 – 1881

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

George S. Patton

Soldier · American · 1885 – 1945

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

Inventor · American · 1891 – 1971

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Howard Schultz

Businessman · American · b. 1953

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

John Linder

Politician · American · b. 1942

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

Mikhail Saakashvili

Statesman · Georgian · b. 1967

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Minna Antrim

Writer · American

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Aristophanes

Poet · Greek

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Kevyn Aucoin

Artist · American · 1962 – 2002

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles de Montesquieu

Philosopher · French · 1689 – 1755

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Inventor · American · 1895 – 1983

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Robert Kiyosaki

Author · American · b. 1947

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Robert Baden-Powell

Soldier · English · 1857 – 1941

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Paul Wellstone

Politician · American · 1944 – 2002

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

William J. H. Boetcker

Clergyman · American

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Zig Ziglar

Author · American · b. 1926

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author · American · 1896 – 1940

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Alice James

Writer · American · 1848 – 1892

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Michael Korda

Novelist · English

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Adam Schiff

Politician · American · b. 1960

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

Activist · American

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Walter Scott

Novelist · Scottish · 1771 – 1832

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

Paula Danziger

Author · American · 1944 – 2004

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

John Engler

Politician · American · b. 1948

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Writer · American

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

Erno Rubik

Inventor · Hungarian · b. 1944

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Businessman · American · 1902 – 2002

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President · American · 1890 – 1969

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Sumner Redstone

Businesman · American · b. 1923

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Tertullian

Author · Roman

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.

Bob Riley

Politician · American

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Bill Veeck

Businessman · American · 1914 – 1986

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

David O. Selznick

Producer · American · 1902 – 1965

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Alfred Hitchcock

Director · English · 1899 – 1980

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Novelist · American · b. 1949

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

Publisher · American

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Sigmund Freud

Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

Bill Watterson

Cartoonist · American · b. 1958

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Vaclav Havel

Leader · Czechoslovakian · b. 1936

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