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In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success.—FRANK M. COLBY, Constrained Attitudes
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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.—EMILY DICKINSON, Success
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.—DISRAELI
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Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.—JIMMY DURANTE
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We are waiting for you there—for you, the man!
Come up from the jostle as soon as you can;
Come up from the crowd there, for you are the man,
The man who comes up from the crowd.—SAM W. FOSS, The Man From the Crowd
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.—W. L. GARRISON, Life
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Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward . . . the odium of success is hard enough to bear, without the added ignominy of popular applause.—CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, Success
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Success is the sole earthly judge of the right and wrong.—ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
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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.—JOHN MORLEY, Recollections
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Whether the race of men on earth mounteth a loftier tower by justice, or by crooked wiles, my mind is divided in telling clearly.—PINDAR
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Success is never blamed.—Proverb
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Success makes a fool seem wise.—Proverb
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If a fool have success, it ruins him.—Proverb
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It is a bad action that success cannot justify.—Proverb
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Deserve success, and you shall command it.—Proverb
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Nothing succeeds like success.—Proverb
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I have great success, but at what cost! At the expense of my health and my life. The enthusiasm of the applauding crowd passes into my blood, and sets me on fire.—RACHEL
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Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacities.—W. D. SCOTT
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Success in life means doing that thing than which nothing else conceivable seems more noble or satisfying or remunerative, and this enviable state I can truly say that I enjoy, for had I the choice I would be nowhere else in the world than where I am.—ALAN SEEGER, Letter from the Trenches
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Success consecrates the foulest crimes.—SENECA
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To succeed on your merits and then to maintain your position by following the same methods—this is honorable victory. And if it means monopoly it is a kind of monopoly which cannot be too warmly approved.—SHARP & Fox, Business Ethics
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When a man returns home and finds for the moment nothing to struggle against, the vast resolve which has sustained him through a long and a difficult enterprise dies away, burning as it sinks in the heart; and thus the greatest successes are often accompanied by a peculiar melancholy.—H. M. STANLEY
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Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.—SIR JOHN SUCKLING, The Tragedy of Brennoralt
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If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,—that is your success.—THOREAU, Walden