success
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘success’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.” -William Lloyd Garrison
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“For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions – the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.” -Lucy Powell
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“I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.” -Harper Lee
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“I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.” -Art Linkletter
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“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.” -John Forbes Nash
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“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.” -Michael Hutchence
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“I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like ‘Oprah’ and ‘Ellen,’ are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense…
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“Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.” -Erwin Rommel
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“To me, success is choice and opportunity.” -Harrison Ford
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“The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.” -Fiona Apple
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“In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you’ve achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.” -Lynn Johnston
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“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.” -Anthony Trollope
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“Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!” -Jonathan Taylor Thomas
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“I don’t think about financial success as the measurement of my success.” -Christie Hefner
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“Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.” -Roberto Cavalli
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“I admit I can’t shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.” -Hugh Laurie
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“I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.” -George Michael
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“I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.” -Peter McWilliams
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“Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.” -Vince Gill
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“With ‘Believe’ bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect…
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“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.” -Alan Greenspan
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“Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there’s never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.” -Murray Walker
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“When everything happens to you when you’re so young, you’re very lucky, but by the same token, you’re never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.” -Lauren Bacall
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“We all know that Social Security is one of this country’s greatest success stories in the 20th century.” -Mitch McConnell
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“The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.” -Ricky Williams
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“I’m not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don’t.” -Jose Mourinho
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“When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I’m not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.” -Nigel Farage
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“I didn’t have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.” -Adam Carolla
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“As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.” -Al Yankovic
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“Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.” -Liz Phair
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“One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.” -Ashley Montagu
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“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.” -Howard Nemerov
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“Hollywood… a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.” -Dirk Benedict
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“I’ve had a lot of success I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.” -Gordon Ramsay
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“Lesson from Pataki’s success is: Use the political moment.” -Andrew Cuomo
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“I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I…
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“I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.” -Constance Baker Motley
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“Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.” -Jack Nicklaus
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“I’m glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.”…
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“If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.” -Gwen Stefani
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“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.” -Fernando Pessoa
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“Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is…
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“All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” -Danny Thomas
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“The problem with being British… I don’t know if it’s me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.” -Danny Boyle
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“In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.” -Rand Paul
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“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.” -will.i.am
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“There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.” -Anita Roddick
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“The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.” -Nelson Rockefeller
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“It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.” -Gerald R. Ford
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“Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.” -Francois Truffaut
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“People still don’t appreciate how ephemeral success is.” -Nate Silver
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“It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
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“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.” -Herodotus
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“I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren’t true.” -Cybill Shepherd
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“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” -George A. Sheehan
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“I haven’t deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it’s probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn’t offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the…
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“My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.” -Herbert Read
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“The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.” -Robert Collier
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“Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn’t have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.” -Brett Favre
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“Success is the sweetest revenge.” -Vanessa Williams
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“You can never be comfortable with your success, you’ve got to be paranoid you’re going to lose it.” -Lou Gerstner
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“Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.” -Jesse Jackson
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“It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you’re happy when you wake up.” -Michael Pitt
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“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.” -Herbert Samuel
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“Don’t be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.” -Maude Adams
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“Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.” -Melissa Bean
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“Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.” -Jay-Z
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“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.” -Bill Owens
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“Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.” -Major Taylor
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“Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.” -John McEnroe
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“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.” -Jonathan Kozol
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“There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.” -Lauren Conrad
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“Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” -Mike Ditka
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“Everyone has determination – it’s a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn’t care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we’re very, very different.” -Dannii Minogue
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“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.” -Bill Shankly
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“Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.” -Abu Bakar Bashir
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“Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“Without Arthur’s voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.” -Paul Simon
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“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.” -Ellen Glasgow
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“There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.” -Bryan Adams
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“The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and – just as the Tea Party did – it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.” -Eliot Spitzer
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“In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.” -Brit Hume
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“You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness.” -Percy Ross
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“Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there – or failing to get there.” -Max Lerner
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“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.” -Alton Brown
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“Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.” -Betsey Johnson
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“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.” -Tom Petty
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“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.” -Graham Greene
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“Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.” -A. N. Wilson
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“I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.” -Lee Ann Womack
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“As you walk in God’s divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.” -Joseph Prince
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“I didn’t have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.” -Jim Davis
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“My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.” -Johnny Carson
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“They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.” -Mahalia Jackson
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“The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.” -Celine Dion
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“My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.” -Arlen Specter
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“We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.” -Gary Player
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“I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that’s what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.” -Mindy Kaling
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“The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.” -Thomas R. Dewar
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“I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.” -Denzel Washington
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“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
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“The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?” -Henry James
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“I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?” -Omar Epps
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“You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.” -Carlos Ghosn
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“Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.” -Charles Kendall Adams
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“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.” -Dennis Prager
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“I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.” -Erykah Badu
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“I’ve learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.” -Sandra Bullock
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“Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.” -Norah Jones
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“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.” -Benjamin Carson
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“I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.” -Ben Okri
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“People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.” -Kate Moss
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“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.” -Henry J. Heinz
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“The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?” -Larry Flynt
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“The secret of success is sincerity.” -Jean Giraudoux
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“But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.” -Ibrahim Babangida
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“And in reality, I don’t think it’s a real documentary. It’s more a story of her life. It’s a story of survival. It’s a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.” -Maximilian Schell
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“Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.” -Al Capp
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“For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.” -Catherine Zeta-Jones
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“I’ve had great success being a total idiot.” -Jerry Lewis
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“The film is not a success until it makes money. It’s only good when there’s a dollar figure attached to the box office.” -John Cusack
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“This weird thing happens when you’re in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they’ll be good for your career. It’s not about the project’s integrity or anything like that.” -Kristen Stewart
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“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.” -Max Planck
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“Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.” -Lillian Hellman
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“In New York, everyone’s desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they’re more laid back about things like that.” -David Bailey
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“One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.” -James E. Casey
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“All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.” -Manny Pacquiao
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“The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.” -Luc de Clapiers
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“The best revenge in the world is success.” -Suge Knight
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“Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.” -Victor Kiam
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“Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.” -Peter Singer
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“Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didn’t have a community of artists.” -Joni Mitchell
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“When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that’s what sells records and then you realize, ‘All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,’ it feels good to have success come from what’s actually inside of you.” -Jessica Simpson
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“I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.” -Anna Quindlen
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“I was very clear that I wanted to keep ‘Thor’ out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.” -J. Michael Straczynski
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“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.” -Karen Armstrong
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“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.” -Glenn Beck
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“I don’t think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.” -Arthur Erickson
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“Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.” -Richard Branson
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“Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’” -Joey Adams
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“I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.” -Calvin Klein
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“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” -Arianna Huffington
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“Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.” -Bernard Law Montgomery
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“You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country’s success.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“Obama is capable – as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.” -Ron Fournier
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“I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.” -Rosie O’Donnell
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“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.” -Christopher Lasch
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“Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.” -Pat Riley
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“I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.” -Kevyn Aucoin
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“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.” -Allan Bloom
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“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.” -David Attenborough
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“I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’” -Doris Lessing
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“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” -Wilma Mankiller
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“I think the success of democracy is not really police security it’s the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.” -King Abdullah II
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“I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.” -Sheryl Sandberg
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“It’s so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.” -John Mayer
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“I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we’ve always found a hole.” -Kevin Mitnick
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“You’ve got to work hard for your success and you’ve got to have a steady presence. That’s the secret.” -Kid Rock
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“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.” -Sting
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“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.” -Alan Rickman
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“Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.” -Larry Craig
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“I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.” -Michael Buble
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“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“I always think I’m the Tom Cruise of music – a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.” -Jon Bon Jovi
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“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.” -Samuel Smiles
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“There’s no right or wrong, success or failure.” -Miley Cyrus
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“I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.” -George Hickenlooper
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“I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.” -Brenda Blethyn
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