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Success Quotes
"It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!"
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"I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories."
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"I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed."
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"Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful."
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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."
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"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."
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"You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."
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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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"Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
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"The only person standing between your dreams and making them a reality is YOU."
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"The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!"
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"From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance."
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"Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."
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"I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill."
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"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
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"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended."
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"I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful."
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"C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group."
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"When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done."
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"It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre."
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"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."
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"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
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"Like any formula, success has parts and therefore it is expressed in three ways " achievement (a science), fulfilment (an art) and lifestyle (an act). All three have to be present for the formula to be complete."
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"Visibility doesn't automatically translate into value, don't just be everywhere, be where you are most needed."
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"If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that."
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
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"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
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"She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop."
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"The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album."
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"Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same."
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"Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus."
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"If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that."
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"Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion."
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"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."
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