Success

(48 votes)   There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Herbert N. Casson
American Author

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(47 votes)   Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Source Unknown

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(47 votes)   Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Albert Gray

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(47 votes)   Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Louis Binstock
American Minister

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(46 votes)   Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Arnold Toynbee
1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer

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(46 votes)   I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

Sting

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(46 votes)   I'm looking forward to eventually becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. Like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(46 votes)   My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(46 votes)   One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

Margaret Thatcher
1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90)

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(46 votes)   Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa
600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra

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(46 votes)   Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Dr. Marcus Bach
American Authority on the World's Religions and Inter-cultural Relations

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(46 votes)   The road to success is always under construction.

Jim Miller

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(46 votes)   The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Charles E. Popplestone

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(46 votes)   We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(45 votes)   Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Warren G. Bennis

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