Nice Success Quotes

November 29, 2008

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.  ~Irving Berlin


Success is simply a matter of luck.  Ask any failure.  ~Earl Wilson

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.  ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.  ~Dale Carnegie

There is no success but your own success.  ~Leslie Grimutter

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.  ~Abraham Lincoln

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Success Sayings

November 29, 2008

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 courtship.  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.  ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896<!–, letter to Ellen Terry, Collected Letters, edited by Dan H. Laurence, vol. 1, 1965; CTO–>


Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.  ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men.  ~Cindy Adams<!–, Joey Adams, Cindi and I, 1957, MBT p67–>

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.  ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.  ~Author Unknown

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Quotations about Success

November 29, 2008

I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.  ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now.  I might as well take a nap.”  ~Carrie Fisher

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

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.  ~Author Unknown

Success:  To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded!  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quotations about Laughter

November 18, 2008

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  ~Victor Borge


What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.  ~Yiddish Proverb

When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.  ~Alan Alda

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.  ~Kurt Vonnegut

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.  ~Irish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.  ~Bob Newhart

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.  ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan

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Quotations about Life

November 18, 2008

Life is like a coin.  You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.  ~Lillian Dickson


We are born wet, naked, and hungry.  Then things get worse.  ~Author Unknown

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.  ~Author Unknown

Life is a cement trampoline.  ~Howard Nordberg

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.  ~Jeremy Taylor

Life… is like a box of chocolates – a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates.  So, you’re stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there’s nothing else to eat while you’re watching the game.  Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it’s gone too fast and the taste is fleeting.  In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper.  ~The X-Files

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Quotations about Friendship

November 18, 2008

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.  ~Pam Brown

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~George Santayana

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Quotations about Attitude

November 18, 2008

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.  ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book


Every thought is a seed.  If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.  ~Bill Meyer

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1893

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.  ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.  ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.  ~Joe Clark

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Life Quotes

November 11, 2008

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.  ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969


Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.  ~Richard Bach, Illusions

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.  ~Mark Twain

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.  ~Bruce Barton

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Great Quotes

November 11, 2008

Put your future in good hands – your own.  ~Author Unknown


What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.  ~John Bunyan

I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.  ~Lauren Bacall

I’m not old enough to play baseball or football.  I’m not eight yet.  My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation.  I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast.  When I play baseball, I’ll  just hit them out of the park.  Then I’ll be able to walk.  ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., “An Exceptional View of Life,” quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.  ~Author Unknown

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  ~Peter T. Mcintyre

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Famous Quotes

November 11, 2008

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth


If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.  ~Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know.  Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.  ~Buckminster Fuller

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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