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Success Quotes


"There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments."


"Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."


"Everyone that steps on to the ladder of success must have hope. Without it, no one is able to reach the top."


"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."


"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."


"Every experience lays the foundation for the ultimate success."


"Success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice."


"Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me."


"Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write."


"Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand."


"As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success."


"I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life."


"You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't."


"I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn."


"Keep trying, success is hard won through much failure."


"Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram."


"In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take."


"Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction."


"I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night."


"Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate."


"To be successful in reaching goals, the right attitude is to never quit. Confidence is to keep the vision alive, by seeing a victory ahead that is worth fighting for."


"Map out lofty goals. include reasonable checkpoints along the way... refine, improve, and enhance your behavior in alignment with your goals.. that is the dynamic of true leadership and the formula for success."


"Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they always lead to a dead-end. Instead, establish a goal, make a plan, and take purposeful action. Those who experience success are those who live it; those who earn it."


"You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!"


"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you."


"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."


"Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing."


"When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success."


"I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show."


"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."


"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."


"The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success."


"To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult."


"Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success."


"It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do."


"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
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