Popular

Browse Popular Topics

Success Quotes

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.'
– Larry Hagman
More quotes by Larry Hagman
I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
– Brenda Blethyn
More quotes by Brenda Blethyn
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
– Charles Kuralt
More quotes by Charles Kuralt
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.
– Alan Shepard
More quotes by Alan Shepard
I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.
– Gordon Ramsay
More quotes by Gordon Ramsay
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.
– Mitt Romney
More quotes by Mitt Romney
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.
– Jack Nicholson
More quotes by Jack Nicholson
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.
– Ingrid Bergman
More quotes by Ingrid Bergman
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
– Constance Baker Motley
More quotes by Constance Baker Motley
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.
– Jeffrey Archer
More quotes by Jeffrey Archer
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
– Erykah Badu
More quotes by Erykah Badu
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
– Harper Lee
More quotes by Harper Lee
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.
– Colin Farrell
More quotes by Colin Farrell
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
– Victor Cruz
More quotes by Victor Cruz
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.
– Alain Prost
More quotes by Alain Prost
I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
– George Michael
More quotes by George Michael
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
– Wiz Khalifa
More quotes by Wiz Khalifa
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
– Paul McCartney
More quotes by Paul McCartney
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.
– Patrick Stewart
More quotes by Patrick Stewart
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.
– Denzel Washington
More quotes by Denzel Washington
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.
– Kevin Mitnick
More quotes by Kevin Mitnick
I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
– Billy Sheehan
More quotes by Billy Sheehan
I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.
– Kiana Tom
More quotes by Kiana Tom
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.
– Mindy Kaling
More quotes by Mindy Kaling
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.
– Hugh Laurie
More quotes by Hugh Laurie
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.
– Jeanne Moreau
More quotes by Jeanne Moreau
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.
– Michael Hutchence
More quotes by Michael Hutchence
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
– Aaliyah Haughton
More quotes by Aaliyah Haughton
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.
– Roger Daltrey
More quotes by Roger Daltrey
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.
– Tanya Tucker
More quotes by Tanya Tucker
I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
– Calvin Klein
More quotes by Calvin Klein
I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
– Jim Davis
More quotes by Jim Davis
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.
– Steve Coogan
More quotes by Steve Coogan
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
– Treat Williams
More quotes by Treat Williams
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.
– David Schwimmer
More quotes by David Schwimmer
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
– Omar Epps
More quotes by Omar Epps
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
– Florence Nightingale
More quotes by Florence Nightingale
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
More quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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.
– Danny Boyle
More quotes by Danny Boyle
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.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
More quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
– George Hickenlooper
More quotes by George Hickenlooper
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.
– Wiz Khalifa
More quotes by Wiz Khalifa
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?
– Logan P. Smith
More quotes by Logan P. Smith
Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
– John Hodgman
More quotes by John Hodgman
Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.
– Tiger Woods
More quotes by Tiger Woods
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
– Mikhail Lermontov
More quotes by Mikhail Lermontov
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.
– Matthew Sweet
More quotes by Matthew Sweet
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.
– Knute Rockne
More quotes by Knute Rockne
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
– Norman Vincent Peale
More quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
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.
– Mary Lou Retton
More quotes by Mary Lou Retton
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.
– Joan Chen
More quotes by Joan Chen
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.
– Billy Corgan
More quotes by Billy Corgan
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.
– Emmanuelle Beart
More quotes by Emmanuelle Beart
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.
– John J. Sweeney
More quotes by John J. Sweeney
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
– Warren Farrell
More quotes by Warren Farrell
For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
– Shania Twain
More quotes by Shania Twain
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
– Jonathan Sacks
More quotes by Jonathan Sacks
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
– Anne Rice
More quotes by Anne Rice
Fame and success are very different things.
– Enya
More quotes by Enya
Excess is success.
– Roberto Cavalli
More quotes by Roberto Cavalli
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
– Keith Henson
More quotes by Keith Henson
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.
– Dannii Minogue
More quotes by Dannii Minogue
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
– Robert Rodriguez
More quotes by Robert Rodriguez
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
– John McEnroe
More quotes by John McEnroe
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.'
– Bill Cosby
More quotes by Bill Cosby
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.
– Ludwig Quidde
More quotes by Ludwig Quidde
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
– Joni Mitchell
More quotes by Joni Mitchell
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
– Tom Petty
More quotes by Tom Petty
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.
– Mario Andretti
More quotes by Mario Andretti
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
– Nancy Pelosi
More quotes by Nancy Pelosi
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
– W. Clement Stone
More quotes by W. Clement Stone
But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
– Jose Mourinho
More quotes by Jose Mourinho
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.
– Jeff Goodell
More quotes by Jeff Goodell
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
– Damien Hirst
More quotes by Damien Hirst
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.
– Brett Favre
More quotes by Brett Favre
At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.
– Christy Romano
More quotes by Christy Romano
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.
– Joseph Prince
More quotes by Joseph Prince
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.
– Al Yankovic
More quotes by Al Yankovic
Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
– Ricky Williams
More quotes by Ricky Williams
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.
– Henri Matisse
More quotes by Henri Matisse
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.
– Fred Allen
More quotes by Fred Allen
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
– Rand Paul
More quotes by Rand Paul
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.
– Thomas Peterffy
More quotes by Thomas Peterffy
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.
– Liz Phair
More quotes by Liz Phair
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
More quotes by Sarah Ban Breathnach
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.
– Vera Wang
More quotes by Vera Wang
All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
– Manny Pacquiao
More quotes by Manny Pacquiao
All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.
– Kevin Smith
More quotes by Kevin Smith
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.
– Danny Thomas
More quotes by Danny Thomas
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
– Mason Cooley
More quotes by Mason Cooley
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.
– Shirley Jones
More quotes by Shirley Jones
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.
– Charlie Gonzalez
More quotes by Charlie Gonzalez
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.
– Tim Holden
More quotes by Tim Holden
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.
– Ellen Glasgow
More quotes by Ellen Glasgow
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.
– Andy Samberg
More quotes by Andy Samberg
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.
– Alec Waugh
More quotes by Alec Waugh
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
– Bill Shankly
More quotes by Bill Shankly
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
– Diane Ackerman
More quotes by Diane Ackerman
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
– John Acton
More quotes by John Acton
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
– Brian Adams
More quotes by Brian Adams