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Success Quotes
"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
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"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
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"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility."
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"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."
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"The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started."
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"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."
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"I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it."
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"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."
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"Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors."
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"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."
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"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."
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"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
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"Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed."
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"I wanted to be successful, not famous."
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"Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure."
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"After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive."
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"It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success."
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"Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"
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"Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?"
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"Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see."
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"It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about."
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"I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris."
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"The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation."
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"What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
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"The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair."
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"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."
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"When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again."
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"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."
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"Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!"
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"The secret of success lies in the perfection of one's gift and working frantically towards God's given potential."
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"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
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"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
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