"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]"
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"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
"I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine."
"I can tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue. Now, if only I could do the same with my shoelaces, I wouldn’t have to banana pudding my way to success."
"Her failure was a useful preliminary to success."
"The road to success is always under construction."
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
"Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend."
"When you are just EXISTING, life happens to you… and you manage; when you are truly LIVING, you happen to life… and you lead."
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."
"It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way; sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning."
"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday."
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
"Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity."
"You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading."
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."
"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
"Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck."
"Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success."