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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.


Irving Berlin

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SEAN HANNITY The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all...
CHARLIE WHITE Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on somethin...
ORLANDO BLOOM Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've...
BERT LANCE As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin...
MEL BROOKS I've had great success being a total idiot.
JERRY LEWIS You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you...
BENJAMIN JOWETT I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ...
GEORGE GERSHWIN The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.
TIGER WOODS Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you&...
USHER For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it'...
BRITNEY SPEARS I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit ...
WARREN SPECTOR Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.
UDAI YADLA You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lo...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving...
JAMES AVERY The definition of success is that the company doesn't miss a beat. Do I love what I do? Oh yeah ...
JOHN T. CHAMBERS Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about suc...
JERRY CANTRELL Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. Whe...
MOBY 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've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I f...
NAVEEN JAIN Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, t...
MATT DAMON Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you&#...
TYGA 'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this ...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH 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) I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always ...
RAFE SPALL You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fi...
HOWARD STERN You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
IAN RANKIN The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.
JIM HARRISON This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy ...
MICHAEL KORDA The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable
SUNDAY ADELAJA The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper...
GWEN STEFANI The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing.
DONTRELLE WILLIS After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By ...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT To stay on the map you've got to keep showing up.
PETER GALLAGHER In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that...
AARON RODGERS For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes ...
EMMANUELLE BEART I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationsh...
JACK CANFIELD I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I...
ALAN PARSONS Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garb...
BETSEY JOHNSON My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowl...
HELEN HAYES The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
GLENN BECK The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep le...
TEMPLE GRANDIN The great thing about this is it forces us to define success.
BOB CURREY Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your c...
VINCE GILL You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the onl...
BETTY CUTHBERT I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become compl...
JASON DERULO My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the know...
HELEN HAYES Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is...
JACK WELCH The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grum...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success o...
PAULA CREAMER You will never reach ur destination if you keep stopping & Being nosey looking at others big success...
FLAMESTARTA You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you sto...
NAVEEN JAIN The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
SUN YAT-SEN Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
LAILA ALI I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 ...
JAMES BROWN I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 t...
JAMES BROWN Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go t...
ASHLEY OLSEN Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
BRUCE RAUNER The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for the...
AGNES OBEL Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, succe...
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL I've worked with people at different stages of their careers and different success levels, and o...
SHAWN ROBERTS You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifica...
MYLES MUNROE I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for...
STEPHEN CURRY I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the...
PETER BERG I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very...
AALIYAH That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.
LONI LOVE I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever su...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER You're so good at what you do, keep pushing, success is on the table at all times!
SEREDA ALETA DAILEY I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was h...
SAM WATERSTON You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to apprec...
AZIM PREMJI The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible empt...
SAM SHEPARD Money itself is absolutely powerless to keep you at the height of success
SUNDAY ADELAJA As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su...
EDDIE REDMAYNE The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well a...
JULIUS ERVING Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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DYLAN BAKER You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
TAYLOR LAUTNER Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Am on this plane to exhibit success unlimited.What about you?
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a...
MICHAEL KORDA People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that ...
PAUL DANO Success is really about your mindset.
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RETIEF GOOSEN As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hat...
DANNY HUSTON I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and audition...
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FRED BERLIN It?s really nice. We actually feel a connection to the farmers.
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IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
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IRVING KIRSCH Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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IRVING KIRSCH Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
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IRVING KIRSCH Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER I don't have a complex mind.
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IRVING HARPER The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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IRVING BABBITT The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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IRVING BABBITT The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership bec...
IRVING BABBITT Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path ...
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IRVING BABBITT According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxi...
IRVING BABBITT The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plur...
IRVING BABBITT Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
IRVING BABBITT Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absen...
IRVING BABBITT The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once...
IRVING BABBITT Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
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IRVING AZOFF I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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IRVING AZOFF I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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KYRIE IRVING When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drive...
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KYRIE IRVING When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play...
KYRIE IRVING I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little b...
KYRIE IRVING Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when...
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WASHINGTON IRVING Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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IRVING BURNS Half my life is an act of revision.
JOHN IRVING A woman's life is a history of the affections.
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JOHN IRVING I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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IRVING LAYTON The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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WASHINGTON IRVING There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
WASHINGTON IRVING God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are...
CLIFFORD IRVING Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not s...
IRVING KRISTOL The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value
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...
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