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Success Quotes


"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."


"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am."


"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."



"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."


"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective."



"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."


"It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success."


"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."


"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."


"Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot."


"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."



"I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories."


"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."


"This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism."


"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."


"I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years."


"We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period."


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


"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."


"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!"


"She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop."


"The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner."


"Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions."


"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."


"We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated."



"The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring."


"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."


"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to it."


"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."


"When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater."


"If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success."


"I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take."


"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."


"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."


"PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness."


"No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it."


"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."


"A good title is the title of a successful book."
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