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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson1907–1987As quoted in 0 to Bitch in 10 Seconds Or Less: Quips and Comebacks for Quick-Witted Women (2005) by Amy Hatch, p. 268.
- Failure
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Motivation & Goals
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
Someone doing it often interrupts the person saying it cannot be done.
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If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Failure
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty1892–1976
Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963
- Failure
- Responsibility
Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are you ready?’
Johnny Carson1925–2005
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow1915–2005
- Motivation & Goals
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Often credited to T. S. Eliot
- Business
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
- Failure
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
DLDoug Larson1926–2017
- Motivation & Goals
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Bill Gatesborn 1955The Road Ahead (1995)