Success Quotes - Page 33

• The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Secret, Literature

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• We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fate, Diversity, Brotherhood

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Game Series: Document 1”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Business, Communication

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• Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

  Graham Greene

  Congratulations, Break, Coastline

  Graham Greene (2011). “Ways Of Escape”, p.252, Random House

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• God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Faith, People

  Interview with Dave Davis, www.chud.com. December 30, 2004.

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• A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Faith, Talking

  "Steve Harvey: Don't Be Stupid About Men" by Sharyn Alfonsi and Ursula Fahy, abcnews.go.com. April 7, 2009.

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• For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Confidence, Men, Achieve

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• Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Inspirational, Business, Taken

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• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.18, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspirational, Movie, Moving On

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Giving Up, Sacrifice

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.19

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• Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

  Al Capp

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Winning

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

  Mason Cooley

  Congratulations, Ordinary, Satisfied

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Business, Military, Preparation

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Business, Would Be

  "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2003.

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  We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

  Walter Scott

  Attitude, Important, Aptitude

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• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stress, Ignorance, Thinking

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