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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 wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
– Alexander McCall Smith
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
– Helen Gurley Brown
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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 story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
– Wynonna Judd
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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 parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.
– Emmylou Harris
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
– Barack Obama
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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 dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.
– Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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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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My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
– Jimmy Chamberlin
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My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
– Judd Nelson
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Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
– Abu Bakar Bashir
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
– Scott Adams
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More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.
– Scott Walker
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Money does not guarantee success.
– Jose Mourinho
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Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
– Will Smith
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
– Karen Armstrong
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
– Major Taylor
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Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
– Steve Jobs
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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
– Eugenio Montale
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
– Melissa Bean
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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
– David Attenborough
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
– Abdul Kalam
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
– Larry Hagman
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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 success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
– W. Clement Stone
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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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Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
– Dennis Prager
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
– Andrew Cuomo
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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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 the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
– Ruth Handler
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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 so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.
– Criss Angel
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It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
– Carrot Top
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It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
– Roger Goodell
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It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
– Alanis Morissette
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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 nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.
– David Guetta
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It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
– Francis Ford Coppola
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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 fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
– Bill Gates
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It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
– Zac Hanson
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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 very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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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 was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.
– John Sexton
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It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
– Little Richard
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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
– Herbert Samuel
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It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
– Michael Pitt
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It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.
– Josh Radnor
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
– Henry James Sumner Maine
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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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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
– Max Planck
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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
– Chris Van Hollen
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
– Samuel Smiles
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
– John Steinbeck
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
– Karen Armstrong
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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 Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
– Simon Hoggart
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
– Paulo Coelho
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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 the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
– James Dyson
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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 New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
– David Bailey
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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 my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
– Patricia Cornwell
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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 Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
– Rita Rudner
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In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
– Reed Hastings
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In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
– Toby Young
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
– Rand Paul
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
– Malcolm X
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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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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
– Ellen Terry
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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 measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
– Justin Long
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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 you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
– Jami Gertz
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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