Congratulations Quotes - Page 8

• And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Games, Voyages, Spirit

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• Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

  William James

  Success, Self Esteem, Equality

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  Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.

  Billy Gardell

  Couple, Party, Men

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• And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Character, Fighting, Vanity

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Perseverance, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.263, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 04, 2012

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• I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, New York, Games

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• Why be a man when you can be a success?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Success, Children, Would Be

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• There is no success without hardship.

  Sophocles

  Success, Achievement, Hardship

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.177, University of Chicago Press

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• 'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

  E. M. Forster

  Sympathy, Sincere, Poor

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.278, Delphi Classics

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• You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?

  Orson Scott Card

  Jobs, Army, Soldier

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.205, Tor Science Fiction

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• What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Dream, Military, Men

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• I was even surprised when in Spa Kimi said to me, ‘Congratulations on your son's birth!’ this is only thing Kimi said to me in two years.

  Romain Grosjean

  Son, Years, Two

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• Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

  Paul Rudd

  Stupid, Mean, Italian

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• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Writing, Past

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• The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations

  Thomas Hood

  Bores

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• It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Two

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Past

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

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• I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

  Bette Davis

  Apples, Goal, Golden

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

  Brett Favre

  Athlete, Play, Important

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Leadership, Two, People

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• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "My Life and Work". Book by Henry Ford, 1922.

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