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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
Prior to all else, readying is the key to triumph.
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
Achievement is contingent on adequate preparation, and without such readiness there is inevitable disappointment.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
The initial stride on the road to triumph in any profession is to kindle enthusiasm for it.
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Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby.
Harry Caray
Scott Bullett, taking left field, is receiving plaudits from everyone. He and his daughter are now the proud parents of a new infant.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Malcolm X
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
Harold Geneen
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Barbara Bush
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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins
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Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
Alan Watts
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
Daniel Berrigan
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Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino
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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler
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I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
Lee Ann Womack
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
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The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
Howard Carter
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Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, wanting to say "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo".
Mike Huckabee
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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Newton D. Baker
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The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.
Jerry Seinfeld
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda
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What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
Joe Abercrombie
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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale
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Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
Isaac Asimov
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I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
Christie Hefner
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Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !
George Benson
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Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.
Eric Edmeades
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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
Henry Flynt
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The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price
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I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
Treat Williams