My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
~By Emanuel Celler ~
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.
~By Anthony Hitt ~
But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.
~By Ludacris ~
Success is the sweetest revenge.
~By Vanessa Williams ~
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.
~By Herbert Simon ~
We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.
~By Edmond H. Fischer ~
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
~By Erica Jong ~
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
~By Alain Prost ~
There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
~By Ted Rall ~
If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
~By Margaret Anderson ~
I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
~By J. Paul Getty ~
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.
~By Arthur Cohn ~
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
~By Edward de Bono ~
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
~By Leo Bogart ~
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
~By John Doolittle ~
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
~By David Frost ~
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
~By Jessica Lange ~
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
~By Robin Tunney ~
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
~By Shawn Colvin ~
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
~By Henry Ford ~
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
~By Henry Hazlitt ~
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
~By Richard Bach ~
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
~By Mario Andretti ~
When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.
~By Paula Cole ~
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
~By Patricia Clarkson ~
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
~By Vince Gill ~
I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
~By Neil Diamond ~
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
~By John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ~
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
~By Joe Murray ~
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
~By Edward Coke ~
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
~By Francis William Aston ~
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
~By Sarah Caldwell ~
I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.
~By Ajay Devgan ~
The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
~By Elton John ~
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.
~By Juice Newton ~
I've had great success being a total idiot.
~By Jerry Lewis ~
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
~By Rose Tremain ~
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
~By William Feather ~
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
We've been probably to some degree too successful.
~By Karl Rove ~
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
~By Ron Kind ~
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
~By Little Richard ~
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
~By Amy Adams ~
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
~By Jane Harman ~
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
~By Gerald Vann ~
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.
~By Ed Belfour ~
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
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.
~By Anna Held ~
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
~By John Cusack ~
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
~By Edmund White ~
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
~By John Dewey ~
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
~By Tony Curtis ~
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
~By Anita Roddick ~
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
~By Ernest Thompson Seton ~
Success can't be forced.
~By Loretta Young ~
Success is a journey, not a destination.
~By Ben Sweetland ~
But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
~By King Hussein I ~
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
~By John Carmack ~
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
~By Jerry Jeff Walker ~
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.
~By Deana Carter ~
This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.
~By Will Carling ~
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