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

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
John Corbett

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
Desmond Morris

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
Fannie Farmer

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
David Bly

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours
Ray Kroc

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
John Acton

A good title is the title of a successful book. And a bad title is the title of a book that is not successful!
Robert Gallagher

'How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?'
Logan Pearsall Smith

Success in football is all about working hard, once you do that you give yourself a chance of doing well.
Anthony Le Tallec

When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
James Fixx

If the England selectors make the same mistakes Australia have, which is not to address the flaws when you're successful, then down the track you're going to have some problems
Ian Chappell

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill

It's great that we're having all this success in the Champions League and we always have confidence in European games.
Dirk Kuyt

It was phenomenal. I was doing two ongoing series, each totally different from the other, and they were both successful. [On a very successful acting period in his career]
William Daniels

Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have
Zig Ziglar

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts
Donny Osmond

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
Sophia Loren

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman
Maryon Pearson

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller

What I have in common with the character in ‘Truman’ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim Carrey

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary.
May B Smith

We welcome the new Pope and wish him every success in the daunting challenges that lie ahead.

...We hope that he will continue along the path of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II in working to enhance relations with the Jewish people and the State of Israel. [on the election of Pope Benedict XVI]
Jonathan Sacks

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Charlotte Whitton

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one
Jose Mourinho

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything
John D Rockeller

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Wilfred A Peterson

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

This bikini made me a success.
Ursula Andress

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.
Jamelia

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. [On how to be a successful athlete]
Gail Devers

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters



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