Quotes on Success

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“The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one’s back in the morning.” ~ Unknown

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” ~ Will Smith

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” ~ Bill Cosby

“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.” ~ David McCullough

“Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run — in the long-run, I say! — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”

~ Viktor Frankl

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