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" Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. "

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" If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. "

" Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. "

" The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. "

" I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success. "

" The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both little victories and big ones. "

" Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory. "

" I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. "

" If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence. "

" Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. "

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" The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream. "

" After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity. "

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" Success is a journey, not a destination. "

" With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in. "

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" It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle. "

" Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. "

" Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday. "

Michael E. Gerber

" One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent. "

Sandra Cisneros

" The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. "

" The path to success is to take massive, determined action. "

" I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics. "

" Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.' "

" Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. "

Norman Vincent Peale

" When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

" Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. "

Tennessee Williams

" I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet. "

" The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you. "