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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
G. K. Nielson
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.
Joe Karbo
It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
Walter Kane
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Gregory Nunn
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
William Strong
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.
Charles B. Rouss
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Gabriel Heatter
The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.
Spencer Haywood
I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
Joe Namath
Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.
Sir Charles Napier
In certain situations we'd be down and the competitor in me would want to get it all back in one play. That impatience makes for bad plays, mistakes, and turnarounds.
Browning Nagle
The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
Edgar Shoaff
We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.
Basil S. Walsh
To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.
Keith Degreen
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
Reggie Jackson
We fall forward to succeed.
Mary Kay Ash
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan