Success Quotes
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I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
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One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.
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Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.
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I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.
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Tony Stewart has been a great teammate and friend for the past several years and is one of the best drivers that has come along in a long time. I wish him continued success and will always cherish our friendship.
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Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.
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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
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Success is outliving your failures
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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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What I measure the most is the fact that we are a much more durable, sustainable company that can bob and weave with whatever we meet. And that is the true measure of success for me in terms of leadership.
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Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
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To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.
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Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
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Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now. Those who have inherited rich blood can use that richness in building greatness in themselves, but those who have not the privilege of such inheritance need not be discouraged. They can create their own rich blood and make it as rich as they like.
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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With the success of our program and the media attention we have received, we feel we can attract players from all over the country.
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That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
