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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts
when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.
Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and
failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and
a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
--Brian Adams (b 1934)
In Hal Urban
_Choices That Change Lives_, p. 24 [2006].

Every man who is high up loves to think that he
has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and
lets it go at that.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.
_What Every Woman Knows_, Act IV

A successful man is one who can lay a firm
foundation with the bricks that others throw
at him.
--attributed to David Brinkley, Sidney Greenberg, et al..

At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed
one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more
deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child,
a friend or a parent.
--Barbara Bush (1925— )
Wife of American the 41st U.S.president, George H.W. Bush
and mother of the 43rd president, Geowge W. Bush.
In "Washington Post" [2 June 1990].

There are two great rules in life, the one general
and the other particular. The first is that every
one can in the end get what he wants if he only
tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule
is that every individual is more or less of an
exception to the general rule.
--Samuel Butler (1835—1902)
English novelist, essayist, and critic.

Veni, vidi, vici.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
--Gaius Julius Caesar (100 B.C.—44 B.C.)
Roman military and political leader.
{Inscription displayed in Caesar's Pontic triumph, according to
Suetonius _Lives of the Caesars_ "Divus Julius"; or, according
to Plutarch _Parallel Lives_ "Julius Caesar", written in a
letter by Caesar, announcing the victory of Zela which concluded
the Pontic campaign - ODTQ.}

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
--Eddie Cantor (1882—1964)
American comedian, actor, singer, and songwriter.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with
the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with
the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
--George Washington Carver (1864—1943)
American agricultural chemist and agronomist.

Success is the ability to go from one failure
to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].

Success depends upon previous preparation, and
without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.

I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby (1937— )
American comedian.

I never could have done what I have done without the
habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the
determination to concentrate myself on one subject at
a time.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
In Michael E. Ruge
_Quote-a-quote: To Your Success..._, p. 42 [2005].

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights
that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret
of making his dreams come true. This special secret,
it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They
are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy and
the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe
in a thing, believe in it all the way.
--Walt Disney (1901—1966)
American film producer, cartoon artist and
the creator of Disneyland.
In Allan Zullo
_Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts And Big Talk From Real Men_, p. 37 [2005].

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].

You are not judged by the height you have
risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
--Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey]
(c.1818—1895)
American abolitionist, reformer, and writer.
In Daryl Cumber Dance
_From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore_, p. 470 [2002].

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets
to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to
do.
--Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (1941— )
American singer and songwriter.

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
--Thomas Alva Edison (1847—1931)
American inventor.
Said c. 1903, in "Harper's Monthly Magazine" [September 1932].

To dream anything that you want to dream. That is
the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that
you want to do. That is the strength of the human
will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That
is the courage to succeed.
--Bernard Edmonds

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y
plus z. Work is x, play is y, and z is keeping your
mouth shut.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
In "Observer" [15 January 1950]

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He that succeeds in the world loves it.
He that fails in it hates it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Journal_ [17 January 1831]


Hitch your wagon to a star.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Society and Solitude_ [1870], "Civilization"


As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the
tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off
your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on
one or a few points.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.

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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Then quit. No use being a damn fool about
it.
--W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield]
(1880—1946) American vaudeville star and film actor.

Success . . . is a result, not a goal.
--Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880)
French novelist.
_Letter to Maxime du Camp_ [26 June 1852].

Success has ruin'd many a Man.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1752]

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.
"Oh, the Places You'll Go!"

From the top of a mountain, You cannot
see the mountain.
--Bene Gesserit
Fictional group from Frank Herbert's _Dune_.

In love, in war, in conversation, in business,
confidence and resolution are the principal
things.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
"On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life"
_Table Talk_ [1821—1822]

He was a self-made man who owed his lack
of success to nobody.
--Joseph Heller (1923—1999)
American novelist.
_Catch-22_ [1961], Chapter 3

The measure of a just society is not whether a
demographically proportional share of any group
succeeds, but whether an individual of talent
can succeed regardless of what group he [or
she] belongs to.
--William A Henry III

Nought venture nought have.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful
men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't
quit.
--Conrad Hilton (1887—1979)
American businessman and founder
of Hilton Hotels.

No man can ever rise above that that which he aims.
--Alexander Hodge (1823—1886)
American theologian.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the
ability to make yourself to do the thing you have to do
when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It
is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however
early a person's training begins, it is probably the last
lesson a person learns thoroughly.
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}.
_Collected Essays_, Vol. 3 [1896];
quoted In Larry Chang
_Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of
Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing_, p. [2006].

Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are
tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
--Washington Irving (1783—1859)
American writer.

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Behind every man who achieves success
Stand a mother, a wife, and the IRS.
--Ethel Jacobson,
quoted in "Reader's Digest" [April 1973]

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We in the industry know that behind every
successful screenwriter stands a woman.
And behind her stands his wife.
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.

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Behind every successful man stands a
surprised mother-in-law.
--Hubert H. Humphrey (1911—1978)
38th vice-president of the United States
[1965-1969] and liberal senator [1949—1965
& 1971—1978].
{1964 speech}

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Behind every great man, there
is a surprised woman.
--Maryon Pearson (1901—1991)
Wife of Lester Bowles Pearson
the 14th Prime Minister of Canada.

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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend
life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained
upon easier terms.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Lives of the English Poets_ [1781], "Pope"

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked
while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair,
have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,
industry, an singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later
life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
--Grenville Kleiser (1868—1953)
American writer of humor and inspiration.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing
by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
--Michael Korda
_Success_ [1977]

Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable.
--Fran Lebowitz (1946— )
American humorist.

Sweet smell of success.
--Ernest Lehman (1915—2005 )
American screenwriter.
Title of book and film [1957].

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The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but
rather a lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi (1913—1970)
American football player and coach of the
Green Bay Packers. He led the Packers to
five NFL championships including two Super
Bowl victories.


The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
--attributed to Vince Lombardi, Leroy "Satchel" Paige,
Vidal Sassoon, and anon.

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The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
_The Ladder of Saint Augustine_ [1882]


Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"The Poets" [1876]

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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. Failure makes people
bitter and cruel.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Summing Up_ p. 121

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy:
the strange error that our perfection depends
on the thoughts and opinions and applause of
other men!
--Thomas Merton (1915—1968)
American Trappist monk and author.

The worst part of having success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
--Bette Midler (1945— )
American singer, actress, and producer.

Success reveals infirmities which failure would
otherwise conceal.
--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he
says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he
says is the least important.
--Lord [John] Morley (1838—1923)
British Liberal politician, writer, and newspaper editor.
_Recollections_ [1917], v. II, bk. 5, ch. 4

The secrets of success are a good wife
and a steady job. My wife told me.
--Howard Nemerov (1920—1991)
American novelist and poet.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must
earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten
thy sleep.
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me
not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but
to leave the result to God.
--Alan Stewart Paton (1903—1988)
South African author.
"The Challenge of Fear,"
"Saturday Review" [9 September 1967]

The fortunate man, in my opinion, is he to whom the gods
have granted the power either to do something which is
worth recording or to write what is worth reading; and most
fortunate of all is the man who can do both.
-- letter from Pliny the Younger to Tacitus
{Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115)
Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters.
Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]
(c.55—c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian}

Keep your eyes on the stars, and
your feet on the ground.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
Words inscribed near his grave in Oyster Bay, N.Y..

It is a rough road that leads
to the heights of greatness.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistles_

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_ [1601], act v, sc. i

Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes,
Desirous still, still impotent to rise.
--William Shenstone (1714—1763)
English poet.
_The Judgement of Hercules_ l. 436

A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply
be the best one can do under the circumstances.
The real mistake is to stop trying.
--B.F. Skinner

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often
and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women,
the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has
left the world better than he found it, whether by an
improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has
never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express
it; who has always looked for the best in others and given
them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose
memory is a benediction.
--Bessie A. Stanley (b.1879)
in _Notes and Queries_ [July 1976].

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back,
sigh and wish things would change. They neither
complain of their lot nor passively dream of some
distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in
their minds that they are not quitters; they will
not allow life's circumstances to push them down
and hold them under.
--Charles R. Swindoll (1934— )
American evanegelical Christian pastor.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary
to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool
than to discover who is a clever man.
--Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pιrigord (1754—1838)
French statesman.

A successful man is one who makes more
money than his wife can spend. A successful
woman is one who can find such a man.
--Lana Turner [Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner] (1920—1995)
American actress.

To succeed in this world, it is not enough
to be stupid, you must be well-mannered.
--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.

I have learned that success is to be measured
not so much by the position that one has reached
in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome
while trying to succeed.
--Booker T. Washington (1856—1915)
African-American educator.
In his autobiography _Up From Slavery_ [1901].

She's the kind of woman who climbed the
ladder of success, wrong by wrong.
--Mae West (1893—1980)
American stage and film actress.

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.
--Sloan Wilson (1920—2003)
American author.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
--Zig [Hilary Hinton] Ziglar (1926— )
American author and motivational speaker.

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apogee [AP-uh-jee], noun:
1. The point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial
satellite that is at the greatest distance from the center
of the earth.
2. The farthest or highest point; culmination.
Ex.: Aurangzeb ended the family tradition of building
architectural masterpieces that had reached its apogee
when his father, Shah Jahan, built the world's most
beautiful tomb, the Taj Mahal.
--Anthony Read and David Fisher,
_The Proudest Day_

arriviste [a-ree-VEEST], noun:
A person who has recently attained success, wealth, or high
status but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart.
Ex.: He excavates enough dirt that, midway through the book, the reader
loses sympathy with Bernays, who comes across as an insufferable
egotist and insecure, name-dropping arriviste.
Ron Chernow, "First Among Flacks" _New York Times_ [16 August 1998]

auspicious [aw-SPISH-uhs], adjective:
1. Giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good;
as, "an auspicious beginning."
2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, "auspicious years."
Ex.: But as Saturday fell on a very auspicious day in the Chinese calendar,
every hotel in Nanjing was booked for weddings.
--Seth Kaplan with Craig S. Smith, "Adventure the Chinese Way,"
_New York Times_ [3 May 2000]

nonpareil
on-puh-REL, adjective:
Having no equal; peerless.


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