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Success Quotes


"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."


"The road to success is always under construction."


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


"Academic success depends on research and publications."


"Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it."


"You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."


"So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference."


"Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off.""


"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."



"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."


"It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted a forehead of stunning gold above the horizon, lifted straight out of filigreed, light-intoxicated clouds that lay on the skyline in attendant veils. Behind us, the sun was setting in a simultaneous congruent withdrawal and the river turned to flame in a quiet duel of gold....The new gold of moon astonishing and ascendant, he depleted gold of sunset extinguishing itself in the long westward slide, it was the old dance of days in the Carolina marshes, the breathtaking death of days before the eyes of children, until the sun vanished, its final signature a ribbon of bullion strung across the tops of water oaks."


"Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success."


"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."


"I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood."


"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."


"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."


"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success."


"When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done."


"Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field."


"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."


"We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us."


"I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success."


"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."


"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."


"They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen."


"Dream the impossible. See the impossible. Pursue the impossible. Achieve the impossible."


"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."


"There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments."


"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."


"Diligence makes big dreams come to past."


"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."


"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
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