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Quotes including the word “success”.

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Aeshop

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination.

Maya Angelou

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

Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Graham Bell

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Graham Bell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Truman Capote

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Fidel Castro

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Democritus

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Walt Disney

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Bob Dylan

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.

Flaubert

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Flaubert

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Ian Fleming

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Goethe

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Gracian

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Andre Malraux

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Nelson Mandela

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Somerset Maugham

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Freddie Mercury

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

Montesquieu

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Montessori

It is necessary that the child teach himself, and then the success is great.

Napoleon

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Isaac Newton

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Richelieu

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Robert Scott

The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

Frank Sinatra

The best revenge is massive success.

Sophocles

There is no success without hardship.

Anne Sullivan

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Thucydides

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Leo Tolstoy

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Washington

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Oscar Wilde

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