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If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon on success

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters on success

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Tom Peters on success

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton on success

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing on success

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Keith Henson on success

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.
Roger Moore on success

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova on success

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson on success

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
Sarah McLachlan on success

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
R. Kelly on success

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
Taylor Kitsch on success

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
Warren Farrell on success

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Bela Lugosi on success

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
Donny Osmond on success

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
Donny Osmond on success

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
Mikhail Bakunin on success

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
Alain de Botton on success

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
Larry Hagman on success

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman on success