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Success Quotes


"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies."


"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."


"I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful."


"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents."


"The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them."


"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."


"A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest."


"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."


"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."


"I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves."


"As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly."


"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."


"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."


"Academic success depends on research and publications."


"No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price."


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



"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."


"When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you."


"But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too."



"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."


"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."


"Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand."


"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?""


"Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success."


"At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success."


"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"



"Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner."


"Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better."


"When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?"


"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself."



"Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day."


"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."
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