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E-mail is a victim of its own success. -- Mitch Kapor
Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. -- Graydon Carter
I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. -- Rick Derringer
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. -- Samuel Butler
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals. -- Shirley Knight
We're endangered by our own success. -- Vernor Vinge
Become your own success story, not someone else's. -- Stephen Richards
You are the conductor of your own success train. -- William Cranch Bond
The victor is often vanquished by his own success. -- Friedrich Schiller
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided. -- Warren G. Bennis
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. -- Owen Jones Classics
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. -- Owen Jones Classics
The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first. -- Iyanla Vanzant
One of the greatest forms of success is to be able to help others accomplish their own success. -- Jon Jones
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success. -- Wiz Khalifa
[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense. -- Ray Stevenson
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. -- Arthur C. Brooks
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. -- Charles Kuralt
In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others. -- Greg Reid
Don't judge your success by what people think of you. You are your own success.Your determination and perserverence is what matters. -- Abigal Muchecheti
Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go. -- David Corn
People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. -- Brian Tracy
When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment. -- Jim Fixx
It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Do not be mad because someone is more successful than you are. What have you done lately to (en.hance), enhance your own success? -- Jon Jones
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success. -- Charles Garfield
While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned. -- Caroline Myss
Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation. -- Susan Collins
Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others. -- Cherie Carter-Scott
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung. -- Paul Schrader
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change. -- Abdallah II
Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose. -- Israelmore Ayivor
It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude. -- Anthony Liccione
My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation. -- John Caudwell
Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours. -- Drew Carey
My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes. -- Kemmons Wilson
What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success? -- Archibald Marwizi
Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us? -- Billy Graham
It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success. -- Jim Rohn
I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself. -- Dan Jansen
Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross. -- Watchman Nee
Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering. -- Keeley Hawes
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity. -- David Maister
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success. -- Mike Figgis
Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors. -- Ben Shapiro
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple. -- Sheryl Sandberg
We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended. -- Donald A. Norman
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages. -- Niall Ferguson
You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost. -- Scott Aukerman
People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success (or failure). Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach. Prevention of failure is an important part of that process. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself. -- Edward James Olmos
I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms. -- Ken Stott
The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything. -- Nelson Rockefeller
When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success. -- Bonnie Hunt
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. -- Michelle Obama
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard. -- Edmund White
I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success. -- Bonnie Hunt
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. -- Damien Hirst
Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own. -- Brian Celio
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. -- Christopher Morley
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects. -- Ian Ziering
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is. -- Spike Jonze
Celebrate your people's success, not your own. -- J. Willard Marriott
Authentic success is living by your own lights. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The only limit to success is your own imagination. -- Shonda Rhimes
Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
I hold the Key to my Own Success! (You do too!) -- Kid Rock
Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice. -- James P. Hogan
The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything -- Nelson Rockefeller
The only chance of success is to trust in your own power. -- Ally Condie
Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means -- P. T. Barnum
Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success -- Herb Brooks
I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth. -- John C. Maxwell
There is no one road to success, you must find your own route. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward. -- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct. -- William James
At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds -- Dr. V. V. Rao
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard -- Edmund White
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. -- Christian D. Larson
Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure. -- Wayne Dyer
Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success. -- Roderick E. Stevens
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.) -- Jacqueline Briskin
Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it. -- George S. Clason
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. -- Stephen Covey
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems. -- Kelly Jones
Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms. -- Robin Sharma
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf -- Barbara Sher
My parents created a world in which the only Âbarrier to your success is your own imagination. -- Shonda Rhimes
One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve. -- Archibald Marwizi
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. -- Rand Paul
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success... -- John Locke
A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success. -- Raffaella Barker
Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing. -- Ted Malloch
..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will. -- Shawn Achor
Success is like a locked door, to open and get it through, you need to create your own key. -- Zeeshan Ahmed
I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others. -- Joel Manby
Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise. -- Magha
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case. -- William Tecumseh Vernon
Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone. -- Rod Steiger
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time. -- Auliq Ice
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. -- Andrew Carnegie
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. -- Anne Sweeney
The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success. -- Bobby Knight
In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own. -- Peter Buffett
Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours. -- Hal Higdon

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