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Success Quotes


"Your life will reflect what you persistently think about."


"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."


"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."


"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."


"Every shuttle mission's been successful."



"You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29."


"There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two."


"The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field."


"Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language."


"Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success."


"I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure."


"Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there."


"God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day."


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


"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."


"I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others."


"I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?"


"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit."


"The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite."



"Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others."



"Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."


"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."


"There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there."



"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."


"The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications."


"With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in."


"The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes."
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