Success Quotes
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“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.”
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“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
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“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
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“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
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“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
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“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
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“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
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“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.”
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“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
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“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”
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“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
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“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
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“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
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“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.”
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
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“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
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“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
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“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
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“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
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“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
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“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”
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“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
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“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”
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“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
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“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”
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“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”
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“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
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“Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
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“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
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“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
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“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
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“Success is dependent on effort.”
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“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
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“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”
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“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
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“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
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“Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.”
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“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”
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“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
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“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.”
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“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
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“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
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“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
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“There is no substitute for victory.”
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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
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“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”
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“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
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“You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”
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“We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”
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“It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”
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“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
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“Fortune befriends the bold.”
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“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
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“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
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“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”
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“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.”
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“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
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“Failure is success if we learn from it.”
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“Much effort, much prosperity.”
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“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
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“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”
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“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”
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“The real secret of success is enthusiasm.”
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“They succeed, because they think they can.”
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“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.”
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“The victor belongs to the spoils.”
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“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”
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“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”
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“It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.”
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“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
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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.”
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“The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.”
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“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.”
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“Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.”
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“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”
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“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
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“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
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“The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.”
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“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”
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“Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.”
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“Success breeds success.”
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“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.”
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“Nothing succeeds like success.”
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“The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.”
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“The secret of success is sincerity.”
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“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
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“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
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“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.”
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“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
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“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.”
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“One fails forward toward success.”
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“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”
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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
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“Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.”
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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.”
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“Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.”
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“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”
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“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”
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“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.”
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“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.”
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“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
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“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.”
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“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
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“Nothing recedes like success.”
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“It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.”
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“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
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“The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.”
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“When you win, nothing hurts.”
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“We fall forward to succeed.”
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“Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.”
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“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.”
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“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”
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“Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.”
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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
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“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
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“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
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“Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.”
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“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”
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“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”
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“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”
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“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”
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“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.”
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“There is no success without hardship.”
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“To be prepared is half the victory.”
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“Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.”
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“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.”
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“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
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“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.”
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“God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.”
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“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
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“Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.”
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“Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.”
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“As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?”
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“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
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“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
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“People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.”
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“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
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“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
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“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
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“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”
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“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
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“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.”
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“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”
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“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”
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“People fall forward to success.”
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“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.”
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“From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.”
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
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“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”
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“Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.”
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“If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.”
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“The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.”
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“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.”
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“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.”
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“To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.”
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“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.”
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“The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.”
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“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
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“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
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“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
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“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
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“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
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“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
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“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”
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“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
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“As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.”
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“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.”
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“The best revenge is massive success.”
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“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
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“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
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“We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters… that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.”
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“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?”
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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
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“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
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“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
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“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”
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“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
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“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”
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“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.”
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“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
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“Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.”
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“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
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“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”
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“Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!”
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“Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.”
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“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
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“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
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“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
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“There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.”
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“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
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“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
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“The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.”
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“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.”
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“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
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“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.”
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“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
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“Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.”
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“Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.”
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“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”
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“Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.”
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
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“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”
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“No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”
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“Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
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“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.”
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“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
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“True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.”
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“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
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“There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.”
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“The road to success is always under construction.”
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“For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.”
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“The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.”
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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.”
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“The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.”
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“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.”
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“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
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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.”
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“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
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“I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.”
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“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.”
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“Every failure is a step to success.”
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“Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.”
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“For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.”
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
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“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”
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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
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“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
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“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
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“Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.”
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“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”
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“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
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“Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.”
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“Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.”
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“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”
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“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
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“Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.”
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“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”
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“Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.”
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“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”
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“Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.”
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“We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.”
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“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
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“Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”
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“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”
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“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
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“There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.”
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“Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.”
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“Success is the sweetest revenge.”
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“Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.”
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“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
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“Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.”
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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
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“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
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“You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.”
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“The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.”
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“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.”
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“I think that success is having fun.”
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“All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.”
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“Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.”
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“I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.”
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“Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.”
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“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”
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“When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.”
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“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”
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“I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.”
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“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.”
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“There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.”
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“I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.”
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“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”
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“The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.”
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“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
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“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.”
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“You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.”
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“An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.”
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“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.”
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“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
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“I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am.”
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“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.”
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“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
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“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
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“At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.”
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“Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.”
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“The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.”
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“Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.”
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“Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.”
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“Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I'm always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game.”
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“You always pass failure on your way to success.”
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“My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.”
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“Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”
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“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
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“I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.”
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“Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.”
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“I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”
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“The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.”
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“The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.”
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”
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“Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.”
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“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.”
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“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”
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“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
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“Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.”
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“A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.”
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“I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.”
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“In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”
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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.”
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“Success has always been a great liar.”
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“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
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“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.”
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“Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.”
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“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
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“Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.”
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“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”
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“Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.”
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“There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.”
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“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.”
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“Success is a journey, not a destination.”
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“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.”
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“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.”
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“It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.”
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“An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.”
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“Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.”
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“Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.”
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“Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.”
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“By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life's challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.”
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“You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”
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“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.”
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“It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.”
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“Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.”
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“Failure is a part of success.”
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“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
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“People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.”
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“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
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“I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.”
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“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.”
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
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“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”
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“There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability.”
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“Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.”
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“Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term economic strength of our communities.”
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“My success, literally, is your success figuratively.”
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“I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.”
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“Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.”
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“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”
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“Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
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“The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.”
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“Border security is imperative for national security, public safety and economic success of communities.”
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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
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“Success is best when it's shared.”
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“I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.”
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“Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.”
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“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
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“Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.”
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“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
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“Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.”
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“Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.”
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“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.”
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“There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.”
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“The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.”
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“As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.”
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“To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.”
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“The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.”
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“Remember, it isn't the dreamers who have good lives - it's the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.”
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“The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.”
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“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”
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“We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.”
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“There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.”
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“Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.”
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“I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.”
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“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
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“Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.”
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“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
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“I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.”
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“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
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“Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.”
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“Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.”
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“I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.”
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“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”
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“To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.”
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“We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.”
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“Success doesn't motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.”
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“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.”
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“You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.”
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“Once you get a taste of success, it's a hard thing to turn down.”
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“There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.”
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“Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.”
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“The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.”
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“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”
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“Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.”
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“I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.”
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“I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.”
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“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”
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“Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.”
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“The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.”
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“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
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“You can only get better if you're prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That's very important for success.”
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“Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.”
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“The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.”
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“The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.”
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“Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.”
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“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”
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“Nepotism will never give you success, but talent can.”
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“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.”
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“The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.”
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“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.”
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“The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.”
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“Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.”
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“I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.”
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“You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.”
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“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
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“The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.”
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“Success is the sum of details.”
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“True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.”
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“Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.”
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“The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.”
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“You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey.”
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“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.”
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“The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.”
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“Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.”
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“I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.”
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“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”
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“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
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“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.”
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“Focus on being balanced - success is balance.”
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“Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.”
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“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.”
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“Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.”
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“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
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“Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation.”
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“Excuses destroy success every time.”
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“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
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“There's really no secret to success. You make your own success.”
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“Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.”
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“The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.”
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“Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.”
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“Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.”
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“The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach's job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.”
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“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”
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“There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up.”
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“Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.”
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“Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.”
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“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”
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“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
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“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.”
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“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.”
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“Success is survival.”
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“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.”
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“I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.”
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“People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.”
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“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
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“With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.”
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“I train heavy and hard every workout. That's the only way I knew. I know it was the key to my success.”
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“Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.”
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“The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.”
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“There is no magic formula to success. It is down to hard work and graft on the training ground and having a good attitude.”
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“The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.”
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“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
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“I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.”
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“Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.”
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“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”
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“Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.”
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“Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.”
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“I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live.”
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“Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.”
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“As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners - but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.”
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“I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.”
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“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”
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“To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.”
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“We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.”
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“Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.”
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“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”
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“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”
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“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
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“Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”
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“I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.”
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“Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.”
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“Sometimes you're a victim of your own success.”
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“Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.”
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“Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.”
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“Success doesn't happen overnight.”
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“God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.”
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“Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.”
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“Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.”
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“Success is a great deodorant.”
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“The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.”
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“I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'”
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“Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.”
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“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”
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“Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.”
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“Every successful person has a fair amount of self-control - it's just the nature of success.”
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“I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.”
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“We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.”
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“Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!”
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“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”
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“What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what's been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we're right or wrong, we'll go and apologize. That's just the way we are.”
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“My success rate speaks for itself.”
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“Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.”
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“There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.”
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“My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.”
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“No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.”
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“When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.”
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“It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.”
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“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
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“Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards.”
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“I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.”
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“Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.”
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“Failure teaches you a lot more than success.”
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“I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.”
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“When it comes to business, diets, working out, writing, or any other dream, success isn't about how high you fly. Success is about how high you bounce.”
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“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
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“Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.”
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“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”
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“Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”
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“Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.”
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“Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.”
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“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”
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“I've had great success being a total idiot.”
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“Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.”
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“Failure is a better teacher than success. I am what I am today because of failures and successes.”
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“Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.”
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“My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.”
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“Success unshared is failure.”
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“All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.”
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“Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.”
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“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
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“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”
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“Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.”
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“What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”
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“When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.”
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“We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.”
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“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
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“Measure yourself and your success by what you give to others, not what you receive in return.”
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“To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.”
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“Success and failure is temporary. So don't let them get to you.”
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“Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.”
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“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.”
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“I'm definitely gaining new fans, and that's the key of any success… gain more love.”
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“I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.”
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“An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company's success framework.”
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“Sometimes you have a bad day, and you're like, 'I'm over this, and I just want to play tennis,' or do another sport that doesn't require any other variables, but then you have a good day, and it's like, it's amazing, and the success makes up for it.”
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“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”
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“Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.”
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“I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.”
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“One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.”
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“Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.”
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“Success is based on your perspective.”
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“Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.”
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“I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.”
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“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
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“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
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“Will I be a success? I don't know.”
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“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
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“I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.”
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“The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.”
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“I have seen good times and bad times, struggle and success.”
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“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”
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“Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.”
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“Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.”
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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
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“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”
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“The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow.”
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“If you want success, be unique.”
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“Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn't need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn't need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants - his personality is synonymous with success.”
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“Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.”
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“We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.”
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“Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.”
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“Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.”
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“Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.”
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“Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.”
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“For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.”
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“Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.”
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“The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.”
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“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.”
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“Be careful of success; it has a dark side.”
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“I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.”
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“When I talk about success I don't mean music business, I just mean the people around me.”
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“I'm a very temperamental person, but when you are wearing the captain's armband for Real Madrid or the national team, it's best to express yourself in a different way. You have to maintain a sense of unity - a good atmosphere where everyone feels happy is one of the keys to success, and that's something you shouldn't lose.”
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“Success - it's what you do with what you've got.”
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“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
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“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
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“Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.”
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“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.”
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“Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.”
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“Success is doing what you love and loving people while you do it.”
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“Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.”
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“For me, there is no limit to success.”
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“I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.”
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“I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.”
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“A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?”
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“I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.”
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“Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?”
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“Throughout life, a positive attitude is important because without it one has a more difficult time achieving any measure of success, whether it be in school, athletics or the working world.”
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“We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.”
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“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.”
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“I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.”
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“Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.”
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“I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.”
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“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.”
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“The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.”
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“I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.”
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“Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.”
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“I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.”
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“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
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“It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.”
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“The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.”
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“Once you have success, you have to maintain success.”
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“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”
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“Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.”
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“The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.”
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“Inequality is partly a marker of success.”
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“Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced.”
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“We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.”
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“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”
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“I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.”
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“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
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“Nobody can ever truly replace Cristiano Ronaldo, because he was unique, a one-off, who created an unbelievably legacy of success at the club. But what I see in Vinicius is special too, I believe he is the best candidate in football to replace Cristiano and to conquer the world with Madrid.”
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“The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.”
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“The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.”
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“The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.”
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“It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.”
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“The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.”
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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
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“If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.”
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“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”
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“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”
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“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”
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“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”
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“Why be a man when you can be a success?”
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“The best revenge in the world is success.”
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“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.”
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“That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.”
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“Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.”
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“Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.”
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“Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.”
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“I had flops, I had success.”
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“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”
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“Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”
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“Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.”
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“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”
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“We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.”
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“You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.”
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“The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.”
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“I think true success is intrinsic… It's love. It's kindness. It's community.”
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“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”
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“The success is worth nothing to me if I can't share it with the people I love.”
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“It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.”
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“I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.”
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“Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge.”
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“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.”
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“Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.”
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“I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.”
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“I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.”
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“I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.”
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“Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.”
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“I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.”
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“At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.”
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“I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.”
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“Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.”
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“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
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“Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.”
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“The road to success runs uphill.”
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“Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.”
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
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“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”
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“In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”
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“The road to success is always under construction… there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams.”
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“As a general rule, the more precious the chips you'd consider betting, the more you should lean toward playing it safe. Check it down; cautious play is usually the recipe for long-term success in poker.”
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“If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is when you have something you really love to do and you can integrate that into your work life. I feel like it's a real privilege that I get to do something that is good for my community and good for the world. But it's also pleasurable for me.”
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“For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.”
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“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
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“If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?”
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“Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.”
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“It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.”
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“Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.”
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“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.”
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“You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'”
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“Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.”
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“The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.”
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“With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.”
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“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
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“I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.”
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“Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'”
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“I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.”
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“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
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“As leaders, I think we have to give people in many places a chance to have success, not continue to put those people down.”
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“Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.”
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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
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“My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.”
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“I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.”
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“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
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“The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.”
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“I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.”
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“Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.”
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“Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.”
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“Success is more difficult to handle than failure.”
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“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”
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“Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.”
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“The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there.”
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“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”
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“I started performing in musical events after the success of 'Victory' and fans demanded the song 'Khaali Quarter' in every show.”
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“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”
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“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
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“I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.”
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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
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“People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.”
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“I realized that my success comes from doing the things I love most.”
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“I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.”
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“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”
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“My greatest success story has been my family.”
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“As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.”
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“In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.”
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“It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.”
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“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”
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“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.”
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“I can't analyse the secret of success. In my style of working, I stick to the basics and make stories revolving around the hero.”
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“I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.”
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“A lot of people think the path to success is a straight line, but it's not. It has got many turns and curves, and you just got to go with the ebbs and flows of it all.”
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“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.”
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“I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.”
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“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”
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“Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.”
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“The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.”
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“I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.”
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“Scars are the price you pay for success.”
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“I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.”
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“Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.”
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“Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.”
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“Confidence is the biggest swag, and that comes with success, which is subjective.”
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“I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.”
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“I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.”
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“Scouting and player development is the key to year-in and year-out success, not the occasional lucky hit. There are no definitive answers in this game, no shortcuts. When you think you've got it all figured out, you can get humbled very quickly.”
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“Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.”
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“If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.”
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“My ambition is to contribute my quota to the overall success of the team.”
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“Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.”
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“No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.”
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“I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.”
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“My son gave me the permission to accept my success.”
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“As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.”
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“If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.”
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“I did some really big films like 'Vaastav' with Sanjay Dutt, 'Pukar' with Anil Kapoor, and 'Jab Pyar Kissi se Hota Hai' with Salman Khan. But I didn't make any effort to cash in on their success.”
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“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”
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“Money does not guarantee success.”
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“Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.”
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“The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'”
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“I can pump myself and beat my chest all I want going into a racetrack, but when you haven't had success there, that means you don't know what feel you are looking for.”
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“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
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“A finishing move is an important part of one's character - and sometimes success.”
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“You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.”
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“I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.”
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“When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.”
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“The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.”
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“Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.”
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“I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery… I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.”
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“I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.”
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“You can measure success by the number of friends who have remained loyal to you, and you to them.”
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“The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.”
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“My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle… It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition.”
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“Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”
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“Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.”
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“The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.”
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“I thank every bully I ever had because that's the only reason I'm here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me - again, if I had any success whatsoever, it's because these people made fun of me.”
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“Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.”
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“I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.”
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“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
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“Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.”
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“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
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“The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.”
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“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”
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“There really isn't a formula for success.”
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“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.”
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“I'm transitioning from being a starving artist. My producers had success outside of the Daniel Caesar brand, so they invested money, time and resources. They funded the first video, and a lot of other things that I'm so thankful for.”
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“It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.”
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“Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.”
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“Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.”
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“When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.”
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“Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.”
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“It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.”
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“I believe 99% of success is never giving up.”
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“Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.”
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“I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.”
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“I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.”
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“To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.”
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“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.”
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“I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.”
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“I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.”
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“The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?”
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“Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.”
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“You see a lot of smaller-school guys go to the NFL and have success: Carson Wentz, Derek Carr for example.”
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“Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.”
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“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
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“People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.”
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“I look at my success as like, blessings, to bless other people.”
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“Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.”
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“Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is… is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.”
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“For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.”
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“Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.”
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“I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.”
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“Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'”
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“I could care less about statistics. It's all about team success.”
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“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.”
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“I work hard every day not only to be a success on the football field and a credit to my team - but to be a good husband, father, son, grandson, teammate - to be the kind of man that is as respected as Walter Payton was.”
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“I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.”
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“I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.”
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“Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.”
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“It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.”
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“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”
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“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.”
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“To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.”
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“Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.”
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“Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.”
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“I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.”
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“I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you.”
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“I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.”
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“I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.”
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“Academic success depends on research and publications.”
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“I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.”
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“Anytime you're rewarded for the success you have, you're going to be happy because you put the body of work in. A lot of hard work. A lot of training. A lot of things you do behind the scenes.”
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“The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.”
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“The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.”
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“Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.”
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“In ministry, success cannot be measured numerically or by popular opinion.”
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“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.”
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“Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.”
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“I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.”
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“Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.”
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“What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.”
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“Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.”
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“Success hasn't changed me at all. I'm still the same cocky, arrogant guy I've always been. The only difference now is that I'm busy all the time.”
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“Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.”
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“There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.”
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“I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.”
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“I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.”
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“Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.”
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“My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.”
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“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
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“Since self-control is vital to reaching long-term goals, befriending people with willpower could be the secret to success. Whether you're tempted to skip that workout at the gym, or you're considering blowing this month's budget, spending time with a disciplined friend could boost your motivation to maintain healthy habits.”
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“Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.”
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“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.”
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“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”
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“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
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“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”
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“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”
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“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
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“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.”
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“The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.”
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“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
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“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
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“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
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“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”
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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
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“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
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“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
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“Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.”
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“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.”
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“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.”
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“You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.”
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“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”
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“Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.”
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“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”
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“Success is 99 percent failure.”
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“Success must never be measured by how much money you have.”
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“You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success… Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.”
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“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”
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“The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.”
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“Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.”
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“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
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“Success doesn't demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.”
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“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
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“You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.”
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“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”
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“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
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“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”
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“I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.”
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“I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.”
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“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”
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“Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.”
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“All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.”
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“The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.”
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“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”
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“Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.”
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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
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“No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.”
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“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”
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“I haven't had a successful life; and now that God has blessed me with some success, I'm doing my best to be responsible with that success.”
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“I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.”
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“When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.”
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“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
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“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”
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“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
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“I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.”
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“There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.”
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“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'”
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“In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.”
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“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”
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“Only stupid people are changed by success.”
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“I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”
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“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
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“Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.”
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
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“My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.”
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“Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.”
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“I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them grow.”
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“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”
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“The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.”
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“My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.”
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“Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.”
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“The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.”
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“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
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“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”
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“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
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“Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.”
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“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
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“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?”
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“Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.”
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“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
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“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.”
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“Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.”
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“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
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“I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.”
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“There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.”
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“Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.”
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“The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.”
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“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”
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“I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.”
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“I still refer to myself as a 'cheerleader' because I keep encouraging others to have confidence and to use their talents to follow their dreams. It's been one of the most important reasons for my success and my helping others succeed.”
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“Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.”
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“I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.”
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“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”
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“Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.”
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“Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”
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“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
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“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
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“As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.”
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“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
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“I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.”
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“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.”
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“Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.”
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“The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.”
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“Striving for success is healthy - but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they're able to bounce back and move forward with ease.”
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“Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.”
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“Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.”
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“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
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“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
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“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”
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“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
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“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
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“Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”
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“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
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“If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.”
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“I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.”
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“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
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“We usually think of improving our life by adding stuff - like more things, more success, more friends. I think the starting place should be removing stuff - try a month without Instagram; try a week without looking at fashion pictures. See how that affects your life, your friendships, and your ability to focus on other things.”
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“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.”
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“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”
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“The importance of this success of Wipro has become manifold more, because it's the success of Wipro that enables the possibility of making a difference to some of the most disadvantaged people in the world.”
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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”
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“Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.”
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“A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?”
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“You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.”
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“If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”
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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.”
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“My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.”
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“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
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“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
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“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”
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“Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.”
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“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”
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“The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.”
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“There's no abiding success without commitment.”
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“Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.”
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“Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.”
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“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.”
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“True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.”