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"The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."
Bette Midler
"The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."
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"Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts."
Donny Osmond
"Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts."
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"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."
Orson Welles
"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."
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"They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad."
Zhang Ziyi
"They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad."
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"I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it."
Brendan Fraser
"I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it."
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"This bikini made me a success."
Ursula Andress
"This bikini made me a success."
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"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
Charles de Montesquieu
"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
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"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service."
Mark Caine
"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service."
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"In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention."
Lou Holtz
"In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention."
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"But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today."
James MacArthur
"But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today."
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"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
George S. Patton
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
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"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"
James Allen
"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"
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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
Earl Wilson
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
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"It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful."
Tanya Tucker
"It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful."
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"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."
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"As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses."
Marlo Thomas
"As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses."
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"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
Margaret Mead
"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
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"Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'"
David Spade
"Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'"
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"Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success."
Maude Adams
"Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success."
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"I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success."
Michael Landon
"I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success."
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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
Robert E. Howard
"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
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"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."
Ramana Maharshi
"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."
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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
Van Wyck Brooks
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
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"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."
Harold Rosenberg
"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."
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"The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
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"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?"
Shawn Fanning
"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?"
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"Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character."
John Wooden
"Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character."
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"If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them."
Sheryl Sandberg
"If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them."
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"I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really."
Treat Williams
"I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really."
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"Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'"
Dick Wolf
"Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'"
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"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'"
Martin Henderson
"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'"
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"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
Richard Linklater
"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
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"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."
Shania Twain
"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."
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"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."
Stuart Rothenberg
"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."
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"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
Linus Torvalds
"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
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"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."
Phillip Adams
"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."
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"I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated."
Denzel Washington
"I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated."
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"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected."
Gerald R. Ford
"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected."
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"That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled."
Stephen Dorff
"That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled."
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"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
Steve Jobs
"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
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"God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day."
Kathie Lee Gifford
"God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day."
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"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."
Dave Winfield
"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."
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"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure."
Jim Dale
"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure."
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"Success can't be forced."
Loretta Young
"Success can't be forced."
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"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."
Eric S. Raymond
"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."
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"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."
Alton Brown
"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."
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"You can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both."
Marie Forleo
"You can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both."
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"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."
B. C. Forbes
"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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"The secret of success lays in your thinking."
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
"The secret of success lays in your thinking."
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"Success is never final, but failure can be."
Bill Parcells
"Success is never final, but failure can be."
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