“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”
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“My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.”
“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.”
“Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.”
“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.”
“We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.”
“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.”
“Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.”
“From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.”
“I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.”
“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
“Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.”
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
“The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.”
“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”
“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”
“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”
“Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.”
“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.”
“On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.”
“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”
“I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.”