Congratulations Quotes - Page 20

• Success covers a multitude of blunders.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Success, Blunders

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Jobs, Hate

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• Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

  David Sarnoff

  Success, Mean, Opportunity

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• ....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

  George W. Bush

  Succeed

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• Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

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  Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Doubt means you're human - congratulations! It's natural to have these feelings, and if anything makes you humble, just don't be ruled by those emotions.

  Kathryn Budig

  Humble, Mean, Feelings

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• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

  Smiley Blanton

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Dr. Smiley Blanton (2017). “Love or Perish [Expanded Edition]”, p.118, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer.

  Dov Davidoff

  Needs, World, Mindless

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• And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

  Victoria Gomez Cima

  Careers, Examination, Found

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• It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Careers, Destroyed

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• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Thinking, Weasels, Traps

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Interview, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

  Rob Lowe

  Reminiscing, Attention, Littles

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• There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

  Frank Carlucci

  Commitment, Said, Follow Through

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• Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

  Margaret Cho

  Regret, Sleep, Night

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• In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

  Martin Van Buren

  Tasks, Ability, Equal

  "Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States".

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• The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Dream, Keys

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• For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in Congress. Unless you're in line for the congressional bathroom.

  Craig Ferguson

  America, Lines, Firsts

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• The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Hymns, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.227, Penguin

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• Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Soccer, Team

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• Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.

  Les Miles

  Team, Men, Lsu

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• I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.

  Fay Weldon

  Lying, School, Naps

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• The sun was shining like a congratulation.

  Margaret Millar

  Shining, Sun

  Margaret Millar (2018). “Experiment in Springtime”, p.95, Soho Press

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• we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.

  Winifred Holtby

  Race, Ignorant, Despair

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!

  Moby

  Gay, Wake Up, Tomorrow

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