“I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.”
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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
“I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.”
“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.”
“The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.”
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.”
“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.”
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”
“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”
“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.”
“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”
“Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.”
“Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.”
“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.”
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”
“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.”
“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.”
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”