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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
– Major Taylor
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
– Erykah Badu
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
– Harper Lee
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I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
– Bonnie Blair
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I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
– Colin Farrell
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I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.
– Michael Koryta
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
– Queen Elizabeth II
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
– Victor Cruz
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I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
– Danica Patrick
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
– Cameron Diaz
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I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
– David Cameron
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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
– Alain Prost
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I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
– George Michael
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I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
– Wiz Khalifa
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I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
– Michael Buble
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I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
– Paul McCartney
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
– Patrick Stewart
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I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
– Denzel Washington
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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
– Ben Lovett
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I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
– Tiki Barber
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I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.
– Kevin Mitnick
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I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
– Billy Sheehan
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
– Barbara Walters
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I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.
– Kiana Tom
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I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
– Mindy Kaling
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I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
– Hugh Laurie
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.
– Tom Brady
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I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
– Frank Luntz
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
– Jeanne Moreau
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I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.
– Michael Hutchence
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
– Aaliyah Haughton
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I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
– Christie Hefner
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I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
– Roger Daltrey
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
– Tanya Tucker
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
– Sam Donaldson
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
– Calvin Klein
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
– Adam Carolla
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I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
– Jim Davis
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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
– Steve Martin
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I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
– Steve Coogan
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I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
– Treat Williams
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
– Nathan Fillion
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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
– Richard Cobden
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
– Herbert Bayard Swope
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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
– Eric Ries
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I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
– Kat Dennings
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I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.
– David Schwimmer
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I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.
– Kathy Ireland
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I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
– Omar Epps
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I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
– Kelsey Grammer
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
– Florence Nightingale
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
– Ben Okri
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I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.
– Melissa Rosenberg
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.
– Danny Boyle
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I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
– Jon Bon Jovi
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
– George Hickenlooper
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I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
– Amy Adams
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I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.
– Wiz Khalifa
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I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
– Hugh Laurie
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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
– Jimmy Buffett
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
– Harold Ramis
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
– Elbert Hubbard
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
– Logan P. Smith
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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
– John Hodgman
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Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.
– Tiger Woods
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
– Samuel Smiles
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Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
– Zig Ziglar
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
– Dirk Benedict
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Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
– Jay-Z
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
– Joe Baca
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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
– Mikhail Lermontov
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Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
– Matthew Sweet
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
– Lance Loud
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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
– Knute Rockne
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
– Mary Lou Retton
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For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.
– Lucy Powell
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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
– Joan Chen
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
– Sir Walter Scott
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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
– Billy Corgan
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For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.
– Kristen Wiig
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For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
– Catherine Zeta-Jones
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For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
– John J. Sweeney
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
– Warren Farrell
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For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
– Elle Macpherson
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For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
– Shania Twain
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Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
– Jonathan Sacks
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
– Anne Rice
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Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
– Mark Kennedy
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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
– James M. Baldwin
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
– Tom Kite
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Fame and success are very different things.
– Enya
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
– Natalie Goldberg
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Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
– Sanjay Kumar
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
– Orlando Bloom
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Failure is a part of success.
– Hank Aaron
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Excess is success.
– Roberto Cavalli
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