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In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.
~ Ellen G. White
The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it's a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.
~ Andy Warhol
If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.
~ Rachael Bermingham
My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.
~ Peter Straub
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
~ Andre Gide
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
~ Eric Rohmer
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
~ Walter Raleigh
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
~ Bela Lugosi
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
~ Maximilian Schell
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
~ Jane Jacobs
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
~ Jane Addams
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.
~ Mitt Romney
The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
~ William James
The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!
~ Ryan Stiles
Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.
~ Steven Yeun
Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.
~ Rob Schneider
There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.
~ Bill Gates
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.
~ Shelby Foote
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.
~ Vince Gill
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
~ Jonathan Swift
When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
~ Juliana Hatfield
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
~ Lord Acton