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Success Quotes


"I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one."


"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."


"Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job."


"Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character."


"You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked."


"If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end."


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


"The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape."


"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."


"It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about."


"But all of this success came at the end of a long climb."


"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."


"Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan."


"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."


"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."


"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."


"The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be."


"I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris."


"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences."


"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."


"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."


"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."


"But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity."


"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."
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