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Success Quotes


"Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success."


"I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back."


"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents."


"My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society."


"What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver."


"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."


"I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?"


"Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record."


"I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me."


"A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story."


"New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation."


"I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals."


"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."


"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people."


"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure."


"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."


"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."


"I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful."


"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."


"They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills."


"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us."


"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."


"Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end."


"We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century."


"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means."


"There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training."



"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door."


"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."


"Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone."


"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."


"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."


"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."


"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."
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