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Success Quotes


"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."


"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."


"I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?"


"The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album."


"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo."


"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."


"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."


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


"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences."


"It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico."


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


"The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair."


"It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour."


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


"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."


"They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills."


"Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there."


"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us."


"Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren."


"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."


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



"Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was."


"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."


"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."


"It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre."


"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."


"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."


"Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success."


"I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others."


"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."


"A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth."


"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking."


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


"It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people."


"The net is not a net until it begins to work. Work your network today!"
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