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The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
– Eliot Spitzer
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
– Marquis de Sade
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
– Hedy Lamarr
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The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.
– Tony Kushner
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The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
– Simon Mainwaring
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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
– Henry Louis Gates
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The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
– Celine Dion
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
– Orison Swett Marden
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
– Arthur Erickson
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The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
– Robert Collier
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The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
– John Cusack
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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
– George Henry Lewes
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The best revenge in the world is success.
– Suge Knight
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
– Samuel Smiles
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That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
– Monica Seles
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
– William Feather
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Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
– Lucy Powell
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
– P. G. Wodehouse
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Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
– James Cash Penney
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Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
– Arabella Weir
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
– Barbra Streisand
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Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
– William Shatner
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Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
– Ben Jonson
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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
– Michael Korda
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
– Nate Silver
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
– Marilyn Monroe
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
– Lillian Hellman
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
– Elias Canetti
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
– Walter Lippmann
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
– Elias Canetti
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Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
– George Allen, Sr.
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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
– Earl Nightingale
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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
– Sparky Anderson
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Success is survival.
– Leonard Cohen
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
– Orison Swett Marden
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Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
– Michelle Obama
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
– Al Bernstein
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
– Marlon Wayans
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Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
– Herschel Walker
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
– Jeanne Moreau
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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
– Sarah Caldwell
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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
– Jon Bon Jovi
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Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
– Christopher Reeve
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
– Pablo Picasso
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Success is dependent on effort.
– Sophocles
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
– Zig Ziglar
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Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.
– Kristen Stewart
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
– W. Clement Stone
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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
– Booker T. Washington
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
– Anna Pavlova
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
– Fran Lebowitz
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
– Vince Lombardi
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
– Jack Nicklaus
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
– Oliver Goldsmith
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Success comes in waves.
– Guy Pearce
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Success breeds success.
– Mia Hamm
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
– Sir Walter Scott
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Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
– Roberto Cavalli
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Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
– Ricky Williams
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Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.
– Ben Barnes
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Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.
– Donny Osmond
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
– Lily Tomlin
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So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
– Brett Favre
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
– Francesca Annis
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Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
– Joey Adams
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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
– Billy Corgan
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Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
– Shirley MacLaine
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Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
– Betsey Johnson
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Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
– Democritus
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
– Taylor Kitsch
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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
– Thornton Wilder
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Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
– will.i.am
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
– Mae West
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
– Ben Stein
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
– Sarah Bernhardt
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
– Kate Moss
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
– Nate Silver
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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
– Keith Henson
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
– Herbert Spencer
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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
– Marcus Garvey
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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
– Nicholas Hoult
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One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
– James E. Casey
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
– Plato
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One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
– Isabelle Adjani
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Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
– Jennifer Lopez
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
– Martin Van Buren
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
– Og Mandino
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
– Aeschylus
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