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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.