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Success Quotes

There are not many famous names on this page. Shakespeare leads, then Steve Maraboli and Emerson, and most of the authors appear only once. The quotes with real citations are more interesting than the motivational ones: James Richardson’s “Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for” (Vectors, 2001), or Jean Ingelow in 1886 observing that if one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” is credited to Churchill almost everywhere it appears. No source has been found. One of the places it shows up is a 2003 book, with none given. It is on the Courage page too, with the same flag.

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If you hear success stories, you are more likely to replicate that, she said – but that does not mean you could slack on hard work or preparation

Radhika Aggarwal

the success of urban development strategies heavily relies on precise and reliable demographic information.

Florence Namayanja

I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes

Moira Lister Sunday Times interview (1983)

Big risks bring big success!

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

“To me it felt like a question about our value system in this culture, the ways we define success for ourselves as well as others,”

Lupita Nyong'o

There is even a how-to book, "Success With Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research,"

Norman Matloff

BOMA OZOBIA Professionalism, consistency keys to success

Boma Ozobia

You don't use another person's life to gauge your success. You are unfair to yourself. That's unkind of you to yourself. Own your narrative. Speak your truth

Chimezie Imo

The success of the African Continental Free Trade Area depends on closing Africa’s infrastructure deficits

Akinwumi Adesina

If I was chasing success, I was chasing the wrong thing

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

If you have that pain, it's success

Faith Kipyegon

I do not think I was ready for it [going solo], but if you are someone on a journey to success you need to do something in order to move forward

Jessica Mbangeni

We have had many successes but I equally take accountability for the challenges we have today

Anne Wojcicki

No road to success is smooth.

Janine van Wyk

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Attributed

I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers—and it was not there … in her fertile fields and boundless forests—and it was not there … in her rich mines and her vast world commerce—and it was not there … in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Alexis de Tocqueville Attributed

Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.

Wallace Stevens Attributed

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold Glasow Attributed

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