Famous Quotes: Success

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.
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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
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There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
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Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Excess is success.
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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.
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Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
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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.
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
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A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
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The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
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There is little success where there is little laughter.
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