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Success Quotes


"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."


"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."


"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."


"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."


"The more successful I become, the more I need a man."


"By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing."


"The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment."


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


"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?"


"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."


"You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful."


"Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon."


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


"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."


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


"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."


"She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract."


"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."


"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."


"The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually."


"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."


"We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures."


"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."


"Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."


"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."


"I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine."


"We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us."


"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."


"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success."


"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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