“The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.”
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“The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.”
“Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.”
“Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.”
“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
“Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.”
“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
“There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.”
“In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.”
“Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.”
“My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.”
“Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.”
“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.”
“Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.”
“I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.”
“As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.”
“I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.”
“Success is the sweetest revenge.”
“You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.”
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.”
“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.”
“The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.”
“Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.”
“Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.”