605 Quotes Found
"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right."
"Fame and success are very different things."
"It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that."
"Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts."
"The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy."
"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."
"When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success."
"I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful."
"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."
"Independent films have a very different cachet than success films."
"Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success."
"It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier."
"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."
"Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?"
"The secret of my success is my hairspray."
"It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent."
"I'm astonished by my success."
"I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City."
"Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."
"Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success."
"I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad."
"I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success."
"If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end."
"In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success."
"My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14."
"I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it."
"I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation."
"I put £150, 000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success."
"At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success."
"Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes."
"I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God."
"Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life."
"I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there."
"Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be."
"I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success."
"Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order."
"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
"I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake."
"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."
"I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came."
"Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation."
"Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent."
"Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon."
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
"It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success."
"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings."
"For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class."
"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life."
"I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'"
"For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth."
"I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success."
"For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies."
"If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else."
"With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'"
"I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well."
"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."
"Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process."
"Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream."
"All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
"A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens."
"To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport."
"Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it."
"There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success."
"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
"I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard."
"Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect."
"There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing."
"We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present."
"Success comes in waves."
"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."
"You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like."
"Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning."
"The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album."
"I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success."
"I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event."
"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes."
"I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it."
"There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete."
"To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in."
"My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success."
"I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it."
"The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy."
"Success tempts many to their ruin."
"I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years."
"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
"But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid."
"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."
"One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time."
"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."
"I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves."
"Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States."
"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil."
"Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take."
"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done, ' I know I'm close to success."
"We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success."
"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."
"Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field."
"The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers."
"I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans."
"My literary success meant nothing to me."
"Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath, ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success."
"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."
"You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition."
"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."
"The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them."
"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success."
"Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups."
"When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done."
"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success."
"If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows."
"I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop."
"You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success."
"I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds."
"There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success."
"That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun."
"The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me."
"I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success."
"Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character."
"I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'"
"I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!"
"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."
"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."
"Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts."
"For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."
"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."
"To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful."
"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to 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."
"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
"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."
"My definition of success is control."
"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"
"I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify."
"A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously."
"I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting."
"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
"Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending."
"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it."
"I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."
"My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."
"I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school."
"The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism, ' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist."
"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
"To me, success is choice and opportunity."
"Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success."
"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."
"I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen, ' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself."
"I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed."
"Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person."
"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."
"I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."
"Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre."
"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."
"I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that."
"Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms."
"Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has."
"Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful."
"I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia."
"We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century."
"When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same."
"Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money."
"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."
"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."
"When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people."
"Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character."
"I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of."
"It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that."
"I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine."
"Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak."
"Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!"
"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
"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."
"The quick success was a bit strange to get used to."
"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."
"The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper."
"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself."
"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."
"Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment."
"I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate."
"I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't."
"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups."
"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."
"Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting."
"As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy."
"When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore."
"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."
"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
"I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true."
"In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit."
"It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success."
"People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is."
"Success makes you less intimidated by things."
"The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success."
"We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work."
"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected."
"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."
"Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more."
"There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time."
"Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people."
"Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy."
"Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion."
"Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on."
"The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed."
"Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
"The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need."
"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."
"You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it."
"Success is the sweetest revenge."
"I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek."
"As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life."
"I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances."
"Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it."
"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."
"Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead."
"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."
"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."
"In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want."
"The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point."
"There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team."
"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."
"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."
"Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways."
"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are."
"Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different."
"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."
"The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other."
"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."
"I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?"
"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"
"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."
"When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself."
"Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?"
"I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated."
"Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice."
"Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily."
"The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along."
"I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school."
"My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model."
"The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself."
"They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills."
"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."
"The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office."
"I've had great success being a total idiot."
"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
"The secret of success is sincerity."
"So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad."
"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
"The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?"
"To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success."
"People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it."
"I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you."
"I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen."
"I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision."
"Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists."
"An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes."
"The best revenge in the world is success."
"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
"All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important."
"One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself."
"This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that."
"Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself."
"There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you."
"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
"American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success."
"I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really."
"I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent."
"We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records."
"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
"I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think."
"You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success."
"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole."
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."
"Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'"
"The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land."
"The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation."
"Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram."
"You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret."
"I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole."
"It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it."
"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."
"I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends."
"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
"I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'"
"Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable."
"I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road."
"Success can't be forced."
"Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life."
"Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth."
"Well, success does not mean doing well."
"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
"Success breeds success."
"So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so."
"Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story."
"You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success."
"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
"I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped."
"The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment."
"Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large."
"I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom."
"I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs."
"You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that."
"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."
"My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed."
"Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody."
"Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God."
"America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy."
"Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything."
"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."
"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
"Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed."
"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."
"I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success."
"Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor."
"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
"Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide."
"The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability."
"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
"For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success."
"The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice."
"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."
"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
"The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you."
"One fails forward toward success."
"It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had."
"Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything."
"For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating."
"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
"I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low."
"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success."
"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
"The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success."
"Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had."
"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
"I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really."
"People fall forward to success."
"I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance."
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
"After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity."
"Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself."
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."
"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match."
"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."
"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."
"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."
"When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you."
"Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product."
"Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work."
"Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor."
"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."
"Success should always be just beyond your grasp."
"I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success."
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
"Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it."
"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."
"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."
"The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it."
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
"I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful."
"I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life."
"From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you."
"Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals."
"Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success."
"We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success."
"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."
"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."
"The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true."
"My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good."
"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."
"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."
"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success."
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
"If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire."
"Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success."
"Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance."
"When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it."
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
"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. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses."
"Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within."
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
"The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends."
"When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion."
"No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"
"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."
"When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts."
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."
"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."
"Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'"
"Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self."
"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
"After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success."
"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."
"There is no success without hardship."
"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."
"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."
"It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself."
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."
"Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
"The road to success is always under construction."
"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."
"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary."
"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."
"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."
"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
"What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."
"I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."
"Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success."
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
"I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that."
"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out."
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
"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."
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
"I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside."
"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."
"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort."
"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
"Success is the child of audacity."
"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
"No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price."
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."
"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."
"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."
"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success."
"Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
"I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success."
"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
"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."
"Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying."
"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
"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."
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
"Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things."
"In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success."
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success."
"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."
"If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are."
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
"There is little success where there is little laughter."
"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."
"You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."
"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats."
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."
"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."
"We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about."
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."
"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."
"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."
"I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success."
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."
"One man cannot practice many arts with success."
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
"There's no abiding success without commitment."
"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."
"Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success."
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
"Success demands singleness of purpose."
"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."
"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
"Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'"
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
"The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
"Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become."
"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."
"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."
"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
"Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe."
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
"Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands."
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
"The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent."
"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later."
"Applause waits on success."
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."
"Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence."
"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail."
"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."
"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."
"Nothing recedes like success."
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
"We fall forward to succeed."
"Nothing succeeds like success."
"Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals."
"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."
"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."
"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."
"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."
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."
"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours."
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
"They succeed, because they think they can."
"Success is dependent on effort."
"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"
"If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed."
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."
"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."
"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other."
"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."
"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
"Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."