Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
They succeed, because they think they can.
Success is dependent on effort.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'