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| Aaron Nimzovich | How could I lose to such an idiot? |
| Bette Davis | I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a [read rest of quote] |
| Bill Cosby | In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. |
| Bob Dylan | A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha [read rest of quote] |
| Carl Sagan | The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. |
| Charlie McCarthy | Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. |
| Dale Carnegie | Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objectiv [read rest of quote] |
| Everett Dirksen | Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends. |
| G. K. Chesterton | I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and do [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | Success covers a multitude of blunders. |
| Gerald Nachman | Nothing fails like success. |
| H. L. Mencken | Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man doe [read rest of quote] |
| Henry David Thoreau | We were born to succeed, not to fail |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. |
| J. D. Watson | One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conceptio [read rest of quote] |
| John Ruskin | In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for [read rest of quote] |
| Jonathan Swift | Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture [read rest of quote] |
| Kurt Lewin | A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achiev [read rest of quote] |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Boldness in itself is genius |
| Lily Tomlin | Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. |
| M. Cartmill | As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaning [read rest of quote] |
| Machiavelli | It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor mo [read rest of quote] |
| Malcolm Forbes | Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat |
| Mary Kay Ash | People fail forward to success. |
| Maryon Pearson | Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. |
| Mell Lazzarus | The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. |
| Michael Korda | An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. |
| Mickey Rooney | You always pass failure on the way to success. |
| Nancy Astor | The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. |
| Nancy Lopez | Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to sh [read rest of quote] |
| Napoleon | From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. |
| Napoleon | Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. |
| Quentin Crisp | Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem [read rest of quote] |
| Quintilian | Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. |
| Quintilian | When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. |
| Reggie Leach | Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. |
| Rita Rudner | In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. |
| Robert Ardrey | Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions. |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. |
| Tennessee Williams | Success and failure are equally disastrous. |
| Thomas B. Reed | A statesman is a successful politician who is dead. |
| Timothy Leary | Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. |
| Walter Winchell | Nothing recedes like success. |
| Whitney Houston | I decided long ago never to walk in anyone?s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I?ll live as [read rest of quote] |
| Woody Allen | Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
| Zig Ziglar | Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the [read rest of quote] |