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"SUCCESS". Quotes from sucessful people





A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley



Action is the foundational key to all success.  Pablo Picass


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Abraham Lincoln





Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry





Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost





I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.  Jonathan Winters





I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns





I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan






If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields





Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot







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


Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard 






Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill





Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing






Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde


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




Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. 
Dale Carnegie






Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton 






Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington





The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt






In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

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



Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. Larry King
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

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Donald Swarbrick said…
Success is when you are happy and content with your own life.
Donald Swarbrick.
September 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM
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I think that what it does come to, thank you for visiting ...
September 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM
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