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Success Quotes


"The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."


"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."


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


"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service."


"But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today."


"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"


"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."


"It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful."


"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."


"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."


"Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success."


"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."


"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."


"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."


"The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are."


"The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."


"If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?"


"If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them."


"Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'"


"I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful."


"We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity."


"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."


"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."


"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."


"God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day."


"You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen."


"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."


"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."


"You can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both."


"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."
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