The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a sta...
IRVING BERLIN Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ing...
GEORGE S. PATTON The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all...
CHARLIE WHITE Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
LAILA ALI Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLIN My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be conte...
JANE RULE Being jealous of someone's success could say a lot about oneself
VICTOR WERNET The more you think success,the more your inner being is activated to make success a glaring reality.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
PAT RILEY Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
DAVID LACHAPELLE True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
PAUL SWEENEY For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it'...
BRITNEY SPEARS True success is the soundness of being.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes ...
EMMANUELLE BEART Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garb...
BETSEY JOHNSON The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.
DAVEED DIGGS True Success is not being rich
it's being favored by God
GOLDEN MASHEGO Diamond being the toughest thing known to us is also the most prettiest object
PEIYANSH SHAH Success is not being rich, but finding content in carrying out the thing that you'd give up your mos...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I've had great success being a total idiot.
JERRY LEWIS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Everything is a theory and you are blind to comprehend it, and reality is nothing but an illusion.
ANONYMOUS BEING It is quite possible that if so many people are saying the same thing what they're saying could be f...
SUCCESS THOUGHTS Take in today as another opportunity to do better at what you attempted to do yesterday.
SUCCESS THOUGHTS Let’s do our best to stay encouraged and encourage someone else in the process.
SUCCESS THOUGHTS I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ...
GEORGE GERSHWIN It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowl...
HELEN HAYES The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s...
SETH GODIN Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals p...
JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER You will never reach ur destination if you keep stopping & Being nosey looking at others big success...
FLAMESTARTA Success is found when we focus on being driven towards our dream every day.
RACHEL WOLCHIN My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the know...
HELEN HAYES Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a jo...
CHILA WOYCHIK I've had great success being a total idiot.
JERRY LEWIS Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
DAN BUCATINSKY The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable
SUNDAY ADELAJA I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.
DAVID SELTZER The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper...
GWEN STEFANI How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat an...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH A rainbow is not possible without a storm, similar to your success not being possible without advers...
TROY GATHERS I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. ...
RYAN TEDDER Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.
UDAI YADLA Being a teenager is hard.
MAE WHITMAN I enjoy being a girl.
PALOMA FAITH I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Don't worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will natural...
OPRAH WINFREY When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
NEHA KOTHARI You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of pa...
LAUREN CONRAD Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outco...
SYLVIA CLARE The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible empt...
SAM SHEPARD The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep le...
TEMPLE GRANDIN Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are fa...
UNARINE RAMARU That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.
LONI LOVE The great thing about this is it forces us to define success.
BOB CURREY Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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IRVING FISHER Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
IRVING BATCHELLER There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
WASHINGTON IRVING