Success Quotes
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Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.
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These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the end - or at least waning - of less successful, and ultimately less "just," political and economic systems. At the turn of the 21st century we appear to be entering our greatest century, a golden age. The challenge that we face is similar to that of the Classic Maya civilization: we have set in motion a "runaway train" of success.
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Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.
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Research has consistently shown that religious commitment and marital success are highly related.
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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
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It seems to me that everybody who's a success has made a decision to put themselves in a situation that eats away at their privacy. Their hours just don't end. Now, with actors it's extreme, because their privacy is almost nonexistent.
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I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
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Parents who don't like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and demanding sushi. If you want sushi, go to a sushi restaurant!
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Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
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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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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.
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Sometimes, our brains just don't work that way. You see these people who have the world at their fingertips, and all the success you can imagine, but they still are depressed. That's kind of what that song is about: the American demons. Because even if you are the poorest American, you still are better off than a lot of areas in the world.
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Success breeds confidence.
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Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.
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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
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So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
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Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.
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If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.
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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
