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Success Quotes


"It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch."


"It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards."


"Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful."


"Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents."


"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."


"A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of."


"Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record."


"Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain."


"I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth."


"The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be."


"I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies."


"I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals."


"Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."


"Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete."


"And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show."


"I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now."


"A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success."


"Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear."


"But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity."


"Success comes to those who dare to dream and work tirelessly to turn those dreams into reality."


"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."


"The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent."


"I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful."


"If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!"


"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."


"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."


"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."


"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success."


"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success."


"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."


"Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field."


"So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions."


"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."


"The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield."


"My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did."


"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."


"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
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