Success Quotes
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
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It is success that colours all in life,
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There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man
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There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
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So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
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So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
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I just don't like to talk about my personal success against somebody.
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We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
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My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!
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From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.
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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.
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Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
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It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.
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Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.
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I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.
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When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. How could this young girl from the suburbs of Detroit become a success in New York? It was always that dream.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
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Visualize success, but don't believe your eyes.
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Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
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I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.
