Congratulations Quotes - Page 14

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  Sam Donaldson

  Success, Hard Work, Mean

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• Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

  Eva Green

  Desire, Relax, Ephemeral

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• My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Love, Success, Brother

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• The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Sadness, Literature

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.436

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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  Mae West

  Success, Personality, Important

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Success, Expectations, Trying

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• Success is a great deodorant.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Life, Success, Advice

  1977 ABC TV broadcast, 6 Apr.

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• All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Confidence, Love Yourself

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• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Success, Worry

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• Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

  Josh Hartnett

  Self, Giving, Perspective

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• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Happiness, Success, Laughter

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Success, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.71, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Anniversary, Marriage, Believe

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• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

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• The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  Alan Hansen

  Rewards, Pressure, Intense

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  Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Procrastination

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• Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

  Jules Renard

  Success, Failure, Punishment

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.123, Tin House Books

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• If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

  Lucinda Williams

  Success, Ends, Process

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• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Success and failure are equally disastrous.

  Tennessee Williams

  Success, Failure, Success And Failure

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• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Positive, Imagination

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  Barbra Streisand

  Success, Ice Cream, Half

  Quoted in Life, 20 Sept. 1963

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