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Success Quotes


"True Success adds value to others."


"When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down."


"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."


"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."


"The happiest, most successful people believe in themselves unconditionally. They know they can do, be and have all that they want in life."



"We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records."


"Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful."


"Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece."


"You deserve to be rich. You deserve to live a happy life. You deserve peace of mind. You deserve respect. You deserve loving relationships. And YES, it's all possible."


"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."


"You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations."


"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."



"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."


"The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band."


"Life is like a magnet: success attracts and failure repels."


"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."


"Men's best successes come after their disappointments."



"There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things."


"Success comes through small daily wins."


"All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated."


"When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure."



"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."


"Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!"


"So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years."


"Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory."



"A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens."


"Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you."



"It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst."


"Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory."


"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."


"I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well."


"Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself."


"The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times."


"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."


"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."



"There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success."


"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."



"The search for someone to blame is always successful."
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