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Success Quotes


"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success."


"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."


"In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already."


"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."


"To be successful you must be willing to leave your comfort zone. Even then success is not guaranteed."


"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be."


"The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia."


"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility."


"Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking."


"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."


"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds."


"You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything."


"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."


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


"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."


"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary."


"That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale."


"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."


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


"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."


"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."


"It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty."


"I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful."


"Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America."


"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."


"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception."


"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success."


"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."


"The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path."


"What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful."


"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
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