Success Quotes
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If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
Kevin Spacey
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I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual being accepted by the Establishment. So, this kind of personal thinking, combined with, say, even the little bit more radical thinking - because at one time the pacifist movement was a very radical concept.
Ella Baker
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I am not working for failure, but for success, and for a real gain, and I must go the way to get it. I am sure the putting manhood suffrage in the Bill is not the way to get it. This has been done by the Chartists, and by the Complete Suffragists, but what has become of their Bills?
John Bright
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I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.
Elena Ferrante
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Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
Ludwig Quidde
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I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.
Sarah Hyland
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Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.
Art Alexakis
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
Charles Kendall Adams
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
Ashwin Sanghi
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... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.
Marlo Thomas
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I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.
Lidia Bastianich
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It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
Edward Thorndike
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I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.
Moira Kelly
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
Evan Esar
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People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.
Phil Jackson
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Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.
V. S. Pritchett
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One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Maria Montessori
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If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.
Barun Sobti
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The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
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When I look at the success of the Cisco Networking Academy program, which has reached more than 4.75 million people since 1997, I know it could have never achieved this scale without our partners. Together we provide the tools, equipment and training for our students and teachers.
John T. Chambers
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We care for our children. And the most important thing is that we want them to achieve the highest degree of success.
Paula Jones
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I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.
Adam Scott