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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

Success, for me, is being able to provide information that will help to change someone's life positively.

Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

We live within two environments: one is physical and surrounds us; the other is mental and is inside of us. Both can be designed to support your success.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

I am stable when my private life is a success.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.