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There is no such thing as a self-made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

In Fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

If at first you do not succeed you are running about average.

First must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by thelove of glory.

We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we do not like?

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we areonly sitting on our own bottom.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.