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Quotes About 'success'

» Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

» The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

» 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.

» The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

» I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

» Truest SUCCESS is but the development of self.

» I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

» If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

» Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

» The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

» Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

» A minute's success pays the failure of years.

» The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

» It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

» In order to gain the tools to fully address the broad impact of business on society, economic success is indispensable.

» The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

» 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.

» 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.

» Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

» The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

» I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

» I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

» Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

» Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

» The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

» 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.

» 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.

» One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

» In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

» A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

» 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.

» Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

» You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

» If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

» You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

» Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

» For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

» 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.

» The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

» It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

» Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

» Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

» I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

» The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.

» The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

» Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

» 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.

» Today convenience is the success factor of just about every type of product and service that is showing steady growth.

» I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

» Failure is success if we learn from it.

» Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

» People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

» I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

» Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

» This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

» Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

» I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

» The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

» We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

» Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

» Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

» I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

» The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

» I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

» Eighty percent of success is showing up.

» Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

» The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

» Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

» A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

» A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

» What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

» Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

» Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

» We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

» However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

» 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.

» It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.

» I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

» But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.

» The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

» The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.

» Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

» Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

» The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

» The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

» There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

» There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

» Control success before it controls you.

» Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

» We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

» It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

» The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

» Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

» If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

» To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

» 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.

» What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

» You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

» The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

» Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

» Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

» Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

» Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

» The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

» Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

» The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

» The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

» 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.

» Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

» He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

» Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

» The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

» The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

» After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

» Achieving success gets complicated. You find yourself hanging around with a different crowd. I probably would have shied away from it, but after a while you can't help but get sucked in... all those parties and premieres and limos picking you up. And after a while, if you hang in with this little group, you lose your sense of reality completely.

» 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.

» If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

» Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

» An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

» Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

» 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.

» Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

» I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

» The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

» Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes.

» To me, the Heismans symbolize (how great of a team we were) because that success could not happen individually without being part of a great team. I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time with the right people. I had the opportunity to play with guys who made me look good.

» My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

» Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

» The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

» I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

» The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

» I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

» I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

» Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

» Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

» The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

» You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

» Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.

» An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

» Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

» People Express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.

» She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

» Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

» Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

» Of course, today everything is records and times, but I believe the greatest marks are setting not only world and other records, but achieving success in different weather condition and competing in major championships; in other words facing the competition fairly in all venues.

» One key to success is not to make your diet too complicated.

» It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

» This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

» 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.

» People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

» A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

» All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

» All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

» Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

» Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

» All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

» Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

» The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

» No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

» Every artist knows that at some point the gift he has will eventually be made manifest. He will, at some point, see the work he has done improve the lives of others around him. But I think every artist also realizes that time will go away from him, too. Success is a fickle companion.

» If it goes away, the success that I've enjoyed has been way beyond my greatest expectations so I've nothing to complain about.

» Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

» The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

» 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.

» Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

» Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

» Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

» The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

» Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

» The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

» You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

» The road to success is always under construction.

» If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.

» He has achieved success
who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women,
the respect of intelligent men
and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty
or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others
and given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction.

» Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

» I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

» I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

» There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

» 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.

» The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

» Our success or failure won't be measured in charts or graphs or budget tables, but in the fulfillment of their dreams [people of Wisconsin].

» King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

» One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

» The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

» The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

» The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

» The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

» Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

» The road to success runs uphill.

» It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

» My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

» My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

» Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

» I thank God I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure is sometimes the first step to success, and where success is only another form of failure if we forget where our priorities should be.

» The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

» I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.

» You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

» Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

» Trio life has the wonderful advantage of not being alone, the pleasure of having success with two other people and the solace when you don't have success.

» The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

» 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.

» Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

» I do not know whether it is my lawyer's love of the first amendment, whether it is my ownership of multiple outlets for news broadcasting or whether I just abhor secrecy, but whatever the reason, I support openness of government for that openness is paramount to the success of democracy.

» If Nevadans define financial success only in terms of how much money they make and accumulate before they draw their last breath, then I tell you our higher education system is condemned to mediocrity.

» There may be demagogues who will try to sell shortcuts and short-term solutions that create immediate prosperity and economic success for this state, but there are no shortcuts to prosperity that ignore the need for the technical and cultural development higher education brings.

» 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 more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

» People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and go to the city, have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.

» It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

» I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

» He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

» For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

» 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.

» Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

» The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

» When our work is done, parents won't measure our success by how much money we spend, but whether more children learn.

» If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

» Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

» 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.

» Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

» 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.

» No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

» Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

» Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

» Financial success as a fine artist is largely a product of time, timing and marketing - assuming of course that good art is being produced all the while.

» I felt I had almost written myself into a corner. You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then the movie, had by then also created a commercial expectation and I remember touring America and seeing people in the audiences who I thought might not want to read the books I wanted to write next. My constituency had become broader, but more mysterious to me.

» The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

» A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

» The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

» The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

» I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

» 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.

» The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

» The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

» I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

» I think the success of The Osbournes as a TV show is an indictment of the soullessness of mankind.

» I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.

» Of course, I cannot say what real success we had. The Russians have not told us. Still I imagined that I alone had caused the Russian attack to fail. Perhaps the official account of the Russian War Office will give me details after the war.

» 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.

» Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

» Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

» It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We lost 250 of our best young men. I felt every one.

» Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

» To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

» I've been twice lucky - I guess I shouldn't expect to win the lottery any time soon. Enjoying that success as a child actor kept me interested, and kept me participating in acting. After that finished I had a really fallow year and Dawson's Creek fell into my lap.

» As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

» My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

» I've lived in L.A. for almost 15 years now, and I've gotten sucked in a little bit to that success game that's played out there, and I wasn't enjoying my work.

» When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy.

» Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

» I played rather well - in any case, jauntily. My success was rather great and, I should say, no doubt unexpected.

» The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

» The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

» Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

» 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.

» To dismiss front-end design as mere 'icing' is to jeopardize the success of any site.

» If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

» My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

» 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.

» The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

» The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

» He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

» Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

» The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

» The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

» The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

» Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

» When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

» I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making... certainly never one in manufacturing... who was interested in many concerns.

» About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

» Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

» Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the someday I'll philosophy.

» 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.

» Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

» This is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of IBM's galaxy-wide success is founded... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

» Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'

» The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

» For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

» The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

» I've had great success being a total idiot.

» I had such a great time working with these people-I hope it's such a big success that we end up doing two of them. It was fun!

» The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

» 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.

» It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

» A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants success consciousness which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing habit of success.

» My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

» Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

» The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

» The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

» There's no abiding success without commitment.

» No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

» The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.

» It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.

» From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

» This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.

» The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

» One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

» The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.

» Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

» If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

» Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

» The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

» Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

» I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

» If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

» 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.

» Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

» The quality of life of the individual citizen is the ultimate yardstick by which to measure the success of any government. Jordan's development record, though impressive by many standards, was always hampered not only by the ongoing conflict, but also by the scarcity of resources. Our answer was to invest in our most precious asset, the individual citizen.

» What success I achieved in the theater is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

» The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

» We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

» I attribute success to having the background of just loving the great stories of the world-and that's what makes the most successful films-combined with my trashy, vulgar appreciation of all that is modern Hollywood.

» The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

» After Amelie was such a huge success that, strangely, I didn't want to do a movie which could be a huge success. I wanted to go and to do something smaller and more discreet.

» Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.

» It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right.

» 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.

» In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

» Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

» Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

» An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

» 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.

» I am a one success man.

» If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

» The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

» 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.

» I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

» 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.

» To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

» I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the way my marriage seemed to be foundering. And one day when my wife was away, I walked out of the house, and out of her life, trying to escape from something I could put no name to.

» Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

» My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

» When your physical environment is in alignment with your aspiration, success becomes the norm.

» Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul.

» 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.

» In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

» The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

» All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

» I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

» Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

» Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to carry it off.

» Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

» The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

» More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

» If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

» While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

» We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

» 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.

» You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

» The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

» The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

» I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

» I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

» The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

» 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.

» 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.

» Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

» There were a lot of people that contributed to my success as a person as well as a player. Without those people, I wouldn't be sitting in the position that I'm sitting in today. I think that it's extremely important for people to realize all of the things that other people do for them.

» You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

» Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

» The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

» A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

» 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.

» Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

» It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

» Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

» The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

» Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

» Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned.

» The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

» My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.