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• The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real! ~ Thomas Merton, "Seven Storey Mountain"
  
  
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno
  
  
• If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown
  
  
• Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen
  
  
• As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  
  
• If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson
  
  
• I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabar (b. 1947), American collegiate and NBA basketball player
  
  
• Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. ~Scott Adams, American cartoonist
  
  
• Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. ~Æschylus (525-456 BC), Greek tragic dramatist
  
  
• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. ~ Rodan of Alexandria
  
  
• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. ~ George Herbert Allen (1922-90), American football coach, executive
  
  
• Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen (b. 1935), American comedian, stage and movie actor, radio broadcaster
  
  
• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~ Michael Jordan
  
  
• You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ~ Wayne Gretzky
  
  
• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
  
  
• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. ~ Oprah Winfrey