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1. "Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."

Horace Mann

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

2. "The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. "

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

3. "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Various

4. "Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Arthur Rubinstein

5. "Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his."

Franklin P. Jones

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

6. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley

Quotations about: Life and Death

7. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

8. "The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. "

Gene Fowler

Quotations about: Art and Culture

9. "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

10. "It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

11. "What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."

Gene Fowler

Quotations about: Envy

12. "Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success."

David O. McKay

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

13. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot."

Walter Bagehot

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

14. "The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."

Nancy Astor

15. "The road to success is always under construction."

Lily Tomlin

16. "The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."

Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Image"

17. "A bestseller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well."

Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Image"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

18. "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

Ethel Barrymore

19. "Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down."

Wilson Mizner

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

20. "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

Vince Lombardi

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21. "The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Vince Lombardi

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

22. "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."

Harvey Mackay

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

23. "Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Zig Ziglar

24. "Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you won't be promoted."

Anon.

25. "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."

Tennessee Williams

26. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

Gore Vidal

Quotations about: Envy

27. "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

Gore Vidal

28. "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."

Fred Allen

Quotations about: Various

29. "If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. "

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: History and Nations -:- Science and Technology

30. "Fame is a magnifying glass."

English proverb

31. "Great hopes make great man."

English proverb

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

32. "If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

William Hazlitt

33. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z ; X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

34. "High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

35. "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw

36. "Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Love

37. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

38. "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

Peter Ustinov

39. "Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

40. "The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

41. "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

42. "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."

George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

43. "Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

44. "Success is the child of audacity."

Benjamin Disraeli, "The Rise of Iskander"

45. "Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."

Socrates

46. "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

47. "I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Marriage

48. "They did not know it was impossible, so they did it! "

Mark Twain

49. "I believe in the paradox of success through failure."

Elbert Green Hubbard

50. "The price of greatness is responsibility."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

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