Success Quotes
 

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. -Christopher Morley
 

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced -- of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed. -Charles Beaudelaire

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. -C.W. Wendte
 

In achieving success, backbone is more important than wishbone. -Frank Tyger

Success consists of a series of little daily victories. -Laddie F. Hutar
 

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Feather

If at first you don't succeed try hard work. -William Feather

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The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. -Charles Buxton

The secret of success of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing those things that failures don't like to do. -A. Jackson King
 

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort. -S. Smiles
 

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -Addison

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. -John D. Rockefeller
 

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. -Emily Dickinson

 

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it. -Stephen Birmingham

I've gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my capacities were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat. -John Mills
 

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. -Helen Keller

Flash powder makes a more brilliant light than the arc lamp, but you can't use it to light your street corner because it doesn't last long enough.  Stability is more essential to success than brilliancy. -Richard Lloyd Jones
 

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
-Generally attributed to Emerson, but also claimed by Elbert Hubbard
 

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

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau. -Josephine Preston Peabody

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.  -Somerset Maugham

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