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Success Quotes


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


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


"The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target."


"We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals."


"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."


"Every shuttle mission's been successful."


"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."


"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."


"I loved Australia. I was very successful there."


"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."


"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."


"In the symphony of a nation's success, unity plays the melody, and discipline conducts the harmony."


"Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success."


"In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily."


"When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow."


"I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain."


"Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear."


"We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success."


"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."


"If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it."


"How important has Phil Jackson been to the success of the Lakers? He's very important."


"For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent."


"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."


"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."


"Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment."


"Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it."


"No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else."


"We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify."


"With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away."


"Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion."


"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."


"If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable."


"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."


"However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them."
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