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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan
US singer & songwriter (1941 - )

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

Lily Tomlin
US actress & comedienne (1939 - )

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor
British politician (1879 - 1964)

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner
US comedian

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor
British politician (1879 - 1964)

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein
US (Polish-born) composer & pianist (1886 - 1982)

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

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, The Lonely Life, 1962
US movie actress (1908 - 1989)

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton
English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936)

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.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

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

Christopher Morley
US author & journalist (1890 - 1957)

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough
US biographer & historian (1933 - )

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

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