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Success Quotes
"To me, success is choice and opportunity."
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"The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done.""
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"Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard."
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"I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment."
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"I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan."
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"Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others."
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"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."
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"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
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"We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of."
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"Dreams are difficult to measure if they remain wishes " crystallise them into measurable goals with specific targets and action plans. Goals/objectives are easier to measure when broken down into tasks with clear targets and deadlines."
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"Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it."
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"If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully!"
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"Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable."
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"The person who says it can't be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it."
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"The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action."
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"All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated."
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"With Inspiration, Liberation and Determination, you can reach any Destination."
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"I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements."
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"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!"
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"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
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"The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges."
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"I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on."
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"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."
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"Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection."
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"Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero."
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"We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head."
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"Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success."
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"Great leaders create more leaders, not followers."
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"Becoming accomplished at what you do is no easy task, nor is the goal reached in a day. The process is time consuming, requires dedication, innovative ideas, meticulous strategizing and can be quite tedious at times. For many, the ultimate objective is to challenge the status quo, change the game, chart unexplored territory, and set a new standard of excellence. Sometimes hitting those marks is its own reward. Seeing others apply your blueprint to construct their own path to success is even more fulfilling. Leaders are motivated by believers! Bask in the imitation of others. After all, it is the highest form of flattery!"
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"Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character."
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"Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption."
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