1. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill
2. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
3. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. - Napoleon Hill
4. You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. - Napoleon Hill
5. No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. - Napoleon Hill
6. Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. - Epictetus
7. In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. - Paulo Coelho
8. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. - Paulo Coelho
9. 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
10. She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. - Mae West
11. Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. - Mae West
12. In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. - Bill Gates
13. Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. - Bill Gates
14. I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. - Bill Gates
15. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn
16. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Jim Rohn
17. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn
18. Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. - Jim Rohn
19. My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved. - Dolly Parton
20. Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success. - Dolly Parton
21. Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. - Dolly Parton
22. Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success. - Eckhart Tolle
23. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
24. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey
25. If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. - Stephen Covey
26. An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. - Stephen Covey
27. When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust. - Stephen Covey
28. We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. - Les Brown
29. The path to success is to take massive, determined action. - Tony Robbins
30. There's no abiding success without commitment. - Tony Robbins
31. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. - Tony Robbins
32. Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? - Tony Robbins
33. My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. - Tony Robbins
34. Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening. - Nipsey Hussle
35. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. - George Washington
36. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
37. One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. - Thomas A. Edison
38. Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. - Thomas A. Edison
39. I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. - Thomas A. Edison
40. We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. - Elizabeth Warren
41. A minute's success pays the failure of years. - Robert Browning
42. My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. - Isaac Newton
43. Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. - Michelle Obama
44. Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it. - Michelle Obama
45. We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. - Michelle Obama
46. We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect. - Michelle Obama
47. Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. - Michelle Obama
48. The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day. - Michelle Obama
49. Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. - Noam Chomsky
50. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. - Viktor E. Frankl
51. Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. - Lyndon B. Johnson
52. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell
53. Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us? - Billy Graham
54. America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. - Sigmund Freud
55. If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. - Sigmund Freud
56. To me, what success looks like is not to believe that Afghanistan can become a unified, Western-style democracy with a developed-country economy just yet. I think success in the American interest is some level of assurance that it's not going to be a place that again leads to an attack on the American homeland. - Pete Buttigieg
57. Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!' - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
58. We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. - Arthur Schopenhauer
59. The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. - George Eliot
60. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
61. Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
62. However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
63. Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
64. Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
65. For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. - Walter Scott
66. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Walter Scott
67. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
68. The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
69. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli
70. Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli
71. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli
72. King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. - Benjamin Disraeli
73. A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
74. The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
75. Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
76. Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
77. Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
78. For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
79. I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
80. I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value. - Joyce Meyer
81. I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success. - Joyce Meyer
82. I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with. - Joyce Meyer
83. Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. - Booker T. Washington
84. I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution. - Alexander the Great
85. 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. - Dale Carnegie
86. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. - Dale Carnegie
87. If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think. - Elon Musk
88. If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. - Sonia Sotomayor
89. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Johnson
90. If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. - Calvin Coolidge
91. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. - Albert Schweitzer
92. The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. - Albert Schweitzer
93. Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. - Marcus Garvey
94. There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation. - Marcus Garvey
95. Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter. - Richard P. Feynman
96. I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's! - Richard P. Feynman
97. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. - Margaret Mead
98. I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it. - Taylor Swift
99. The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.' - Robert Baden-Powell
100. I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. - Steve Martin
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