951 private quotes tagged success

“Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.” — Diane Lane

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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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“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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“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.” — P. G. Wodehouse

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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 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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“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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“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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“The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.” — George Henry Lewes

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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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“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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“Fame and success are very different things.” — Enya

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“Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.” — Maude Adams

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“As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.” — Ann Romney

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“Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.” — Paul Feig

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“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.” — Ron Jaworski

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“The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?” — Larry Flynt

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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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“There's no right or wrong, success or failure.” — Miley Cyrus

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“Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.” — Dee Hock

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“The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.” — James Thurber

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“Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money.” — Bo Bennett

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“I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.” — Wayne Dyer

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“When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.” — Jessica Simpson

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