Quote by Ellen DeGeneres
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. Id say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses. – Ellen DeGeneres

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The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Fear
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When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. – Ellen DeGeneres

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famous
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Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. – Marcus Garvey

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With Believe bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved. – Katherine Jenkins

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Success

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. – Booker T. Washington

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Success

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows whove had success, to prove to audiences that you dont have to be a fool to become successful. – NeNe Leakes

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Success

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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit. – Conrad Hilton

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Success

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreens history, theyve always been pioneers in the application of technology. Theyre the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite. – James Collins

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I, for one, am quite willing to join the forgive, forget and move on crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family. – Tony Campolo

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Family

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare

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Punctuality