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

Chinese proverb

2. "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

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

Graham Greene

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

4. "Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil, "Aeneid"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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

Vince Lombardi

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

Quotations about: Various

7. "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

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

Thomas Gray, "Poetical Works"

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

W.H. Auden

Quotations about: Art and Culture

10. "There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for."

John Otway

11. "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

12. "The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries."

Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

13. "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. Failure makes people cruel and bitter."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human

14. "Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Art and Culture

15. "The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."

Kurt Vonnegut

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

16. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Bill Cosby

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

17. "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

Jules Renard

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Envy

18. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Andrew Carnegie

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

19. "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Optimism and Hope

20. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

Andrew Carnegie

Quotations about: Happiness

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21. "As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

22. "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

23. "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Jim Rohn

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

24. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Maya Angelou

25. "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."

Sydney Smith

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

26. "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Various

27. "The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

Katherine Hepburn

Quotations about: Various

28. "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Bravery and Fear

29. "Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."

John C. Calhoun

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

30. "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."

Johnny Cash

Quotations about: Richness and Money

31. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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

Erma Bombeck

33. "The distinction between a manager and a leader is as broad as the distance between control and inspiration."

Anon.

Quotations about: Authority, Government

34. "Success is getting up just one more time than you fall down."

Anon.

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

35. "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

Logan Pearsall Smith

Quotations about: Life and Death

36. "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

Napoleon Hill

37. "Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?"

Marlon Brando

Quotations about: Art and Culture

38. "Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important."

John Morley

39. "Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."

Doris Lessing

40. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

Henry David Thoreau

41. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Joyce Brothers

42. "Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end."

Abraham Maslow

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

43. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Optimism and Hope

44. "Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."

William Cullen Bryant

45. "My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

46. "Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known; for others, it depends on never being found out."

Ashleigh Brilliant

47. "Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."

Truman Capote

48. "Failure is success if we learn from it."

Malcolm Forbes

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

49. "It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail."

Genghis Khan

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

50. "The easiest way to grow up is to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you."

Anon.

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