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1. "A goal is a dream taken seriously."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

2. "Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."

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Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

3. "The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

Jean Genet, "Prisoner of Love"

Quotations about: History and Nations

4. "Money and Success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there."

Will Smith

Quotations about: Richness and Money

5. "In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."

Judy Garland

Quotations about: Love

6. "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: God and Religion

7. "You work hard to be good and then to be great, but when you're great, you don't just want to be good."

Pat Bradley

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

8. "Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

9. "Success often comes from not knowing you limitations."

Robert A. Heinlein

10. "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

11. "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

12. "The most important thing about having goals is having one."

Geoffrey F. Abert

Quotations about: Various

13. "Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

14. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Robert F. Kennedy

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

15. "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

16. "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Life and Death

17. "The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."

William Jennings Bryan

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

18. "Fortune sides with he who dares."

Virgil

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

19. "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

20. "No rules for success will work if you don't."

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Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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21. "To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

Dorothea Brande

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

22. "Measure others' greatness not by the position they hold but by their ability to treat it with reserve."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Human -:- Various

23. "What hurts much more than own failures are someone else's successes."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Envy

24. "We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."

Pierre Corneille, "The Cid"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

25. "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a winner."

Venus Williams

26. "If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through."

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Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

27. "Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

Napoleon Hill

28. "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Quotations about: Happiness

29. "When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in."

Aeschylus

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

30. "The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Time and Passing

31. "Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!"

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

32. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

33. "Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out."

Barbara Walters

34. "Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."

Maureen Dowd

Quotations about: Various

35. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."

Andy Warhol

Quotations about: Time and Passing

36. "I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."

Christopher Hampton, "Dangerous Liaisons"

Quotations about: Marriage

37. "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."

Martina Navratilova

38. "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Richness and Money

39. "Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."

Oscar Levant

Quotations about: Various

40. "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

Marilyn Monroe

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

42. "Planning lies with men; success lies with Heaven."

Chinese proverb

43. "The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

Gail Sheehy

Quotations about: Authority, Government

44. "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."

Graham Greene

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

45. "Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil, "Aeneid"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

46. "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

Vince Lombardi

47. "To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

Quotations about: Various

48. "The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Life and Death

49. "The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Thomas Gray, "Poetical Works"

Quotations about: Life and Death

50. "Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "

W.H. Auden

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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