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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X on success

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden on success

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso on success

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher on success

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on success

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone on success

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Bill Gates on success

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho on success

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
Bill Gates on success

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe on success

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey on success

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

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison on success

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison on success

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
W. Clement Stone on success

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama on success

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky on success

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce on success

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington on success

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley on success