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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
– Christopher Lasch
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Nothing recedes like success.
– Walter Winchell
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Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
– Roger Staubach
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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
– Phyllis McGinley
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Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
– Navjot Singh Sidhu
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
– Ramana Maharshi
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Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
– William J. H. Boetcker
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
– A. N. Wilson
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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
– Giacomo Casanova
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
– Herbert Read
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My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
– Lisa Loeb
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
– Taylor Caldwell
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My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.
– John Legend
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My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
– Arlen Specter
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My definition of success is control.
– Kenneth Branagh
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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
– Alton Brown
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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
– Major Taylor
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
– Abdul Kalam
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Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
– Ayelet Waldman
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Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.
– Michelle Obama
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Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.
– Murray Walker
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
– Samuel Johnson
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
– Andrew Cuomo
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It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
– Lena Dunham
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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
– Ben Bernanke
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It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.
– John Mayer
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It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
– Bode Miller
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
– R. L. Stine
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
– Amy Tan
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It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.
– Roger Goodell
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It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
– George Michael
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It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
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It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.
– Katy Perry
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
– George Jean Nathan
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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
– Havelock Ellis
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Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
– Diane Lane
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Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
– Liam Neeson
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
– Umberto Eco
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In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
– Brit Hume
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
– John Ruskin
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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
– Jessamyn West
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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
– Bill Gates
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In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
– Reed Hastings
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
– Rand Paul
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In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
– Lynn Johnston
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Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
– Charles Kennedy
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If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
– Juliana Hatfield
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
– Malcolm X
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If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
– Lucinda Williams
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If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.
– Jason Aldean
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If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
– Mitt Romney
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
– R. Kelly
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If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
– Sidney Sheldon
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
– Henry Ford
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If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.
– Salman Khan
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
– Mason Cooley
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
– Henry Ford
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
– Sigmund Freud
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I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
– Robert Plant
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I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.
– Sandra Bullock
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I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
– Art Linkletter
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I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
– Paula Radcliffe
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I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.
– Eva Gabor
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I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'
– Nicole Scherzinger
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I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.
– Brendan Fraser
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I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
– Jose Mourinho
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I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.
– Puff Daddy
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
– Jada Pinkett Smith
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I'm astonished by my success.
– Danielle Steel
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I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
– Tom Hiddleston
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I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
– Lil Wayne
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
– Gail Porter
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I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
– Kevyn Aucoin
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I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
– Idris Elba
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I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.
– NeNe Leakes
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I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
– Jessica Savitch
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I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
– Sheryl Sandberg
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I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
– Rick Springfield
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
– Damian Lewis
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
– J. Michael Straczynski
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I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
– Sarah McLachlan
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
– Hakeem Olajuwon
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I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
– Alanis Morissette
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I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
– Larry Hagman
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
– Doris Lessing
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I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.
– Joe Nichols
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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
– Paul Bear Bryant
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I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
– Andy Murray
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I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.
– Bethenny Frankel
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I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
– Lee Ann Womack
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
– King Abdullah II
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I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
– Jane Pauley
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I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
– Cybill Shepherd
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I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
– Whoopi Goldberg
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I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
– Maria Bartiromo
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I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
– Shelby Foote
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