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Success Quotes


"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."


"To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success."


"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable."


"The best way to compete is to get defeat."


"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself."


"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."


"Visibility doesn't automatically translate into value, don't just be everywhere, be where you are most needed."


"Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."


"Authenticity is hard to fake."


"Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory."


"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."


"I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well."



"As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further."


"Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality."


"If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show."


"Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking."


"I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing."


"That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale."


"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."


"I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond."


"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."


"Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"


"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."


"The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path."


"The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes."


"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."


"The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena."


"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."


"I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful."


"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."


"The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness."


"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."


"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script."


"I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful."
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