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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

Thomas Moore

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

David Landes

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Itís quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isnít at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember thatís where you will find success.

Thomas J. Watson

Success doesn't come to youÖyou go to it.

Marva Collins

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Nightingale

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Kendall Adams

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward.

David Thomas

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are

Jim Rohn

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.

Dell Crossword

Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road.

Laing Burns, Jr.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Phillip Adams

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.

Charles Francis Adams II

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us.

George Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

Zig Ziglar

As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall.

Unknown

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

Unknown

Confidence is the companion of success.

Unknown

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider ó and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation ó persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Alexander Graham Bell

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

Warren G. Bennis

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Irving Berlin

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Al Bernstein

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