Success Quotes
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Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.
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No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.
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An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.
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Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.
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The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.
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When we talk about climate, we need to do everything we can to set the stage before the actors come on. And they may only have one chance at success. We should keep thinking: How do we maximize that chance of success?
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I think what happened was the manifest success of the Prius caused a rethink on everybody's part.
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.
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On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'
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Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.
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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.
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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
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Success breeds confidence.
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Respect your success.
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While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
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Learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family’s what it’s all about. It’s the only thing that matters.
