951 private quotes tagged success

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.” — Jim Carrey

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“I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.” — Jim Carrey

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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.” — Golda Meir

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“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.” — John Madden

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“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” — Mary Kay Ash

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“Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.” — Ralph Marston

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“There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.” — Javier Bardem

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“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.” — William Hazlitt

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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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“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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“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” — James Allen

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“While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.” — Alex Rodriguez

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“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.” — Charles Kendall Adams

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“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.” — River Phoenix

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“Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.” — Bo Bennett

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“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.” — Bo Bennett

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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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“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier

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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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“I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.” — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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