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Success Quotes
"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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"When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again."
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"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
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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 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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"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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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
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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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"At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering."
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"We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success."
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
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"What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
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"Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories."
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"I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV."
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"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."
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"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success."
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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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"Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film."
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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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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
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"In the symphony of a nation's success, unity plays the melody, and discipline conducts the harmony."
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"It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults."
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"The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose."
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"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself."
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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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"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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"Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling."
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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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"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."
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"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
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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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"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."
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"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."
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"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
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"The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment."
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