 My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. Author: A. J. Foyt
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| I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change. Author: Abdallah II
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| Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs. Author: Adam Duritz
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| We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. Author: Adam Osborne
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| Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. Author: Agatha Christie
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| More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV. Author: Al Roker
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| Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. Author: Alain de Botton
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| My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful. Author: Alan Thicke
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| People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives. Author: Albert Bandura
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| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Author: Albert Camus
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| Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Author: Albert Camus
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| The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Author: Albert Einstein
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| Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. Author: Alex Haley
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| If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. Author: Alex Noble
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| There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. Author: Alexander Chase
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| Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy. Author: Alexis Herman
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| The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. Author: Alfred A. Montapert
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| We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. Author: Alfred Eisenstaedt
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| The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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| We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. Author: Alfred Kastler
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| A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. Author: Alice Stone Blackwell
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| If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything. Author: Alicia Machado
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| I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. Author: Althea Gibson
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| In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. Author: Althea Gibson
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| Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully. Author: Amisha Patel
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| We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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| There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. Author: Amy Tan
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| There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Author: Anais Nin
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| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Author: Andre Malraux
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| A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Author: Andre Maurois
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| I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. Author: Andrew Jackson
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| If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that. Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
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| The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. Author: Andrew Sullivan
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| You cannot be this successful without having God on your side. Author: Andy Dick
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| The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. Author: Andy Rooney
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| I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. Author: Anita Roddick
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| We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period. Author: Anna Eshoo
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| A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife. Author: Anna Garlin Spencer
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| Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives. Author: Anne Ford
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| When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you. Author: Annie Lennox
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| To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations. Author: Anthony Hitt
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| So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially. Author: Antoine Fuqua
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| One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. Author: Anton Chekhov
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| To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Author: Anton Chekhov
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| Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve. Author: Ariel Sharon
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| Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities. Author: Armstrong Williams
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| You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful. Author: Armstrong Williams
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| Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. Author: Arthur Henderson
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| Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. Author: Arthur Levitt
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| If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. Author: Arthur Lydiard
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| Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. Author: Ashley Judd
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| One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. Author: Ashley Montagu
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| We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head. Author: Ashley Olsen
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| Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. Author: Audrey Hepburn
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| The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Author: Ayn Rand
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| The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. Author: B. C. Forbes
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| For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. Author: B. R. Ambedkar
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| The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. Author: Babe Ruth
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| Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. Author: Baltasar Gracian
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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. Author: Barack Obama
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| Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. Author: Barbara Bush
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| The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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| The reward for success in St. Paul is eviction. Author: Barbara Harris
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| Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. Author: Barbara Tuchman
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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. Author: Barbara Walters
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| Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. Author: Barbara Walters
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| Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. Author: Barbra Streisand
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| Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. Author: Barry Mann
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| PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. Author: Bea Arthur
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| I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that. Author: Bear Bryant
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| Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see. Author: Bebe Neuwirth
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| The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. Author: Bela Lugosi
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| Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Author: Ben Jonson
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| Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. Author: Ben Stein
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| The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. Author: Ben Stein
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| Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies. Author: Ben Stiller
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| Success is a journey, not a destination. Author: Ben Sweetland
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| As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| Success is the child of audacity. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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| What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. Author: Benjamin F. Fairless
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| Applause waits on success. Author: Benjamin Franklin
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| Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Author: Benjamin Franklin
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| You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything. Author: Benjamin Jowett
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