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Success Quotes
"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
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"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
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"That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun."
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
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"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
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"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
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"I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style."
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"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
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"I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful."
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"I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success."
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"When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again."
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"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
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"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"
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"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."
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"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"
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"Success is about being brave enough to show up, even when you don't have all the answers."
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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
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"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it."
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"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."
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"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
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"I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful."
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"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."
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"It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!"
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"I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun."
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"The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."
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"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
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"A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."
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"What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor."
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"Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person."
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"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
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"If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard."
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