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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]