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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is when reality exceeds expectations.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Success is dependent on effort.

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

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

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.