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

Sandra Cisneros

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" Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested. "

" In China, you just don't have the space for civil society and independent discourse and free media that you do in India. That's why India's success is so important as the world's largest democracy. "

" Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. "

" Much effort, much prosperity. "

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

W. Clement Stone

" 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. "

" We fall forward to succeed. "

" Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it. "

" You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. "

" Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman. "

Maryanne Trump Barry

" Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. "

" And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see. "

Victoria de los Angeles

" The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. "

" My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. "

John James Audubon

" Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making. "

" I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle. "

" If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. "

Juliana Hatfield

" I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us. "

Robin S. Sharma

" I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success. "

" I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. "

" I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. "

Sylvester Stallone

" We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. "

Henry David Thoreau

" The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty. "

" In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. "

Miguel de Cervantes

" I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success. "

Wentworth Miller

" For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. "

" 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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" Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. "

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