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Success Quotes


"After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity."



"If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online."


"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."


"Success is three parts hard work and one part serendipity, this serendipity is a direct result of the other three parts of hard work."


"Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better."


"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."


"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."


"Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase."


"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success."


"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."


"Successful people have always been the ones to learn from the mistakes of others as well as from their successes."


"If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading."


"To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others."


"I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed."


"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."


"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."


"Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good."


"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."


"Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities."


"A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere."


"Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways."


"Success is just around the corner from difficulty."


"The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more."


"Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success."



"Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the eye to see his opportunity, the heart to prompt to well-timed action, the nerve to consummate a perfect work. And no tyrant-passion dragged him back; no enthusiasms, no foibles encumbered his way."


"Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows."


"Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair."


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


"People with vision sees opportunity where there is problem. They see money not problem."


"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."


"Review how you spend your money and time across all areas of your life, and judge for yourself whether your investment in your mind is right for the future you want."


"The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year."


"Some people quit when victory is around the corner."


"Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve."
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