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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing. Pele
Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal? Jean Renoir, My Life and My Films, 1974
She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. Mae West
We have some fucked up barometer for success, don’t we? Spy Game 2001 starring Robert Redford & Brad Pitt & Catherine McCormack & Stephen Dillane & Larry Bryggman & Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Ken Leung & David Hemmings & Michael Paul Chan & Garrick Hagon & Andrew Grainger, director Tony Scott, Pitt to Redford
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. Ellen Glasgow
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. J Robert Oppenheimer, Security Hearings 1954
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche
Success it seems is more about money and contacts. And the top jobs are still for a select few. Richard Bilton, Who Gets the Best Jobs? BBC 2011
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed, saying: ‘There is a life, but it’s not for you.’ John Mortimer, cited Daily Mail 31st May 1988
Success has got lots of enemies. American Gangster 2007 ***** starring Denzel Washington & Russell Crowe & Chiwetel Ejiofor & Cuba Gooding jr & Josh Brolin & Ted Levine & Armand Assante & Yul Vazqez & Ruby Dee et al, director Ridley Scott, associate to Frank
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 starring Pierce Brosnan & Judi Dench & Jonathan Pryce & Michaelle Yeoh & Teri Hatcher & Ricky Jay & Gotz Otto & Joe Don Baker & Vincent Schiavelli & Samantha Bond et al, director Roger Spottiswoode, Elliot Carver
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. Elizabeth II
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. Mid-19th century proverb
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. Marilyn Monroe
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate. Michael Jordan
Desire is the key to motivation: but its determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. William James
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Robert Kiyosaki
Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures. Vincent van Gogh
Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. William James, letter to H G Wells 13th September 1906
I’ve had great success being a total idiot. Jerry Lewis
The secret of success is sincerity. Jean Giraudoux
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi [alt. ‘a lack in will’]
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need. Emily Dickinson, Success is Counted Sweetest, 1859
Success has always been a great liar. Friedrich Nietzsche
Eighty per cent of success is showing up. Woody Allen
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Jim Rohn
Success is dependent on effort. Sophocles
Rather fail with honour than success with fraud. Sophocles
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Walter Chrysler
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Joyce Brothers
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Al Bernstein
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde