Quotations About / On: SUCCESS
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Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 224.)
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Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
(Elias Canetti (b. 1905), Austrian novelist, philosopher. "1974," The Secret Heart Of The Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973-1985 (1991).)
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4.
Nothing succeeds like reports of success.
(Sue Sanders, U.S. oil producer. Our Common Herd, ch. 24 (1940).)
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 374 A....)
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Nothing recedes like success.
(Bryan Forbes (b. 1926), British author, actor, filmmaker. quoted in Observer (London Dec. 19, 1971).)
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Failures are easier to repeat than successes.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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The realism of failure, the romance of success.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1924). "Birth and Marriage," Alphabets and Birthdays, Yale University Press (1957).)
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
(Sarah Bernhardt (1845-1923), French actor. The Art of the Theatre, ch. 3 (1924).)
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