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Success

"If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average." ~M.H. Alderson

"The first and most important step toward...success is the feeling that we can succeed." ~Nelson Boswell

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress." ~Nicholas Murray Butler

"Success is due less to ability than to zeal." ~Charles Buxton

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is teh quality that most frequently makes for success." ~Dale Carnegie

"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement." ~Thomas N. Carruther

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Self-trust is the first secret to success." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." ~William Feather

"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" ~Carrie Fisher

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure." ~B.C. Forbes

"He that would have fruit must climb the tree." ~Thomas Fuller

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." ~David Frost

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." ~Robert F. Kennedy

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." ~Abraham Lincoln

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." ~C. Malesherbez

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." ~Christopher Morley

"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks." ~Theodore Roosevelt

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing." ~J.C.F. von Schiller

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it." ~Unknown

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." ~Unknown

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." ~Unknown

"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." ~Booker T. Washington

"I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it." ~Jonathan Winters