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"Of all the passions, jealously is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemy; its wages to be sure of it." - Charles Caleb Colton
"The author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it." - Charles Caleb Colton
"We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or later the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the mind." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Talk not of your personal success to one who has failed; forget not your failures in the moment of success." - Chinese Proverbs
"To be elated at success and disappointed at failure is to be the child of circumstances; how can such a one be called master of himself?" - Chinese Proverbs
"The rulers of old set off all success to the credit of their people, attributing all failure to themselves." - Chuang Tzu, also spelled Chuang-tsze, Chuang Chou, Zhuangzi, Zhuang Tze, Zhuang Zhou, Chuang Tsu, Chouang-Dsi, Chuang Tse, or Chuangtze
"The superior man makes the difficulty to be over come his first interest; success comes only later." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"If a man put duty first and success after, will not that improve his character?" - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"The ways of the true human being are three. I myself have met with success in none of them. For he that is really Good is never unhappy, he that is really wise is never perplexed, he that is really brave is never afraid." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?" - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"Don't laugh at a child's ambitions. There is no sting so sharp as ridicule, and a laugh is often ridicule to a child. What a parent should do when he knows his child is overreaching, is to talk it over with him from every angle, and, if possible, find an angle from which the job can be attacked with hope of success. Then urge him forward, give him every encouragement. Above all, don't help your child to do something that he can accomplish on his own. Don't deny him the priceless privilege and thrill of developing his own success." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"Mix judgment with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten make a success; but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success!" - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"Cheating thrives where unfairness reigns, along with economic anxiety. It thrives where government is the weak captive of wealthy interests and lacks the will to do justice impartially. It thrives where money and success are king, and winners are fawned over whatever their daily abuses of power." - David Callahan
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." - David M. Burns
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." - David M. Burns
"Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men." - Demosthenes NULL
"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll’ philosophy." - Denis E. Waitley
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." - Denis E. Waitley
"The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without is, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, on an arm chair in an office." - Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal." - Earl Nightingale
"The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice." - Earl Warren
"The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success." - Edmund Burke
"It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor." - Edmund Burke
"Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life." - Edward Burgess Butler
"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." - Edward Burgess Butler
"The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." - Edward Everett Hale
"Most of the crimes which disturb the internal peace of society are produced by the restraints which the necessary, but unequal, laws of property have imposed on the appetites of mankind, by confining to a few the possession of those objects that are coveted by many. Of all our passions and appetites, the love of power is of the most imperious and unsociable nature, since the pride of one man requires the submission of the multitude. In the tumult of civil discord, the laws of society lose their force, and their place is seldom supplied by those of humanity. The ardor of contention, the pride of victory, the despair of success, the memory of past injuries, and the fear of future dangers, all contribute to inflame the mind, and to silence the voice of pity. From such motives almost every page of history has been stained with civil blood." - Edward Gibbon
"The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans. If we have this faith and if we pursue understanding, we have not the promise but at least the possibility of success. We should not be misled by promises. Humanity in all its history has repeatedly escaped disaster by a hair’s breadth. Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster." - Edward Teller
"All success consists in this: you are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"Success consists in the climb." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"There is no failure except in no longer trying... The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.... There is no failure except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"Success for women, is always part failure." - Erica Mann Jong
"A leader is above all things an animator. His thought and faith must be communicated to those he leads. He and they must form as one at the moment of executing a plan. That is the essential condition of success." - Ferdinand Foch
"In achieving success, backbone is more important than wishbone." - Frank Tyger
"Success is often just an idea away." - Frank Tyger
"Success won't just come to you. It has to be met at least half-way." - Frank Tyger
"The road to success is usually off the beaten path." - Frank Tyger
"Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you're the man who made them." - Frank Tyger
"Success often comes from not knowing your limitations." - Frank Tyger
"Success covers a multitude of blunders." - George Bernard Shaw
"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be." - George Sheehan