Success
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential. These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
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.
I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.
In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure.