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Quotes About Success

Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.
~ Anne McKevitt
When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you.
~ Maureen Reagan
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
~ Anna Pavlova
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
~ Gary Neville
We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
~ Charlize Theron
Women don't want to win, they want a winner.
~ Patrice O'Neal
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
~ Aretha Franklin
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
~ Matt Groening
The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
~ Brian Tracy
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
~ Billie Jean King
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
~ Oprah Winfrey
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
~ Quentin Bryce
Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
~ Brian Tracy
We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. Its time to take ownership in our success.
~ Tory Burch
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
~ Karl Lagerfeld
McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women.
~ Ron Dennis
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
~ Debbi Fields
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
~ Katharine Hepburn
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
~ Joyce Brothers
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.
~ Jane Harman
I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
~ Joan Rivers
Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.
~ Belle de Jour