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  Quotations About / On: SUCCESS

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  She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.

 
(Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. Love Minus Zero/No Limit (song), on the album Bringing it all Back Home (1965).)
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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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  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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  Nothing recedes like success.
 
(Bryan Forbes (b. 1926), British author, actor, filmmaker. quoted in Observer (London Dec. 19, 1971).)
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  Nothing succeeds like reports of success.
 
(Sue Sanders, U.S. oil producer. Our Common Herd, ch. 24 (1940).)
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  Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies,

 
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Tell all the truth but tell it slant (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  Success
Self-esteem = --------- Pretensions

 
(William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1890).)
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  Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
 
(Mae West (1892-1980), U.S. actor. Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, ch. 1 (1959). West was a flamboyant stage and screen actor known for her witty, audacious portrayals of sexually experienced women.)
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