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Success Quotes


"Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq."


"They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen."



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


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


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


"Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim."


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


"The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up."


"Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth. Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. And although I am not there yet, I have come to this place to become such a man."


"You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo."


"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."


"One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it."


"I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful."


"Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission."


"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."


"I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time."


"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."


"Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years."


"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself."


"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."


"When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure."


"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful."


"From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance."


"Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you."


"Get in the habit of visualizing yourself standing at the victory line of your dream, but at the same time, be sure to accompany your positive imagination with consistent actions."


"Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person."


"That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself."


"Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life."


"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."


"So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful."


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


"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."


"It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing."


"I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult."


"The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner."


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


"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to it."


"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."
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