Success Quotes

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!
– Terry Farrell
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
– Charlie Finley
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
– John Arbuthnot Fisher
'Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio's parachute, a Met banner held high. His goal was to spur our home team to success, Burst Beantown's balloon claiming Sox were the best.
– Phyllis Orlikoff Flug
When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up and went to work. Now it's sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I'm thrilled with the way things have gone-but my life was simpler 10 years ago.
– Johnathan Frakes
I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
– Brendan Fraser
My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
– Judy Garland
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
– Bill Gates
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.
– Andy Gibb
Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971.
– Barry Gibb
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.
– Roland Gift
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
– Jerry Gillies
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.
– John Glover
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.
– John Glover
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.
– Barry M. Goldwater
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.
– Tony Goldwyn
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.
– Alan Greenspan
As the final step, pollsters tell us how the public reacted to it, which becomes the agreed version-whether the event itself was a flop or a success.
– Thomas Griffith
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
– Dr. Rob Gilbert
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
– Joe Girard
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
– Charles J. Givens
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
– Charles J. Givens
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
– Arnold H. Glasow
The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
– Lefty Gomez
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.
– John Gottman
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.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
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.
– Bernard Greenhouse
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.
– John B. S. Haldane
Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
– Monty Hall
I earnestly wish them all imaginable success; in the first place that they may not, by the unseasonable obscurity of a cloudy sky, be deprived of this most desirable sight; and then, that having ascertained with more exactness the magnitudes of the planetary orbits, it may redound to their eternal fame and glory.
– Edmond Halley
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.
– Learned Hand
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
– Tom Harkin
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
– Vaclav Havel
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.
– Tom Hayden
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
– Joseph Heller
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.
– Joseph Heller
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.
– Ernest Hemingway
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'
– Martin Henderson
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.
– Arthur Hertzberg
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
– Napoleon Hill
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
– Adolf Hitler
The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
– Paul Hogan
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
– J. G. Holland
Great things are rarely easy things. They are most often risky things, with just as great a chance for failure as for success.
– Mike Huckabee
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.
– King Hussein
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
– Frances Watkins Harper
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.
– Gabriel Heatter
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
– Bruce Henderson
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.
– Barbara Hershey
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
– Cullen Hightower
Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
– Conrad Hilton
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.
– Rupert Holmes
I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
– Bonnie Hunt
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
– Vanilla Ice
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.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
– Joshua Jackson
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.
– Ken Jenkins
Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned.
– Ross Johnson
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.
– Benjamin Jowett
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
– George Kennedy
I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.
– George Kennedy
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.
– John Maynard Keynes
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
– Philip Knight
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.
– Michael Korda
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
– Michael Korda
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
– Michael Korda
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.
– Michael Korda
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.
– Ray Kroc
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
– Ray Kroc
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.
– Stanley Kubrick
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.
– Alfred Kahn
If we can get them to understand that saying no to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.
– John Van de Kamp
Ultimately, being a part of a team means competing, working, living and winning and losing together. And in the end, a teammate's nationality, his language, his taste in music or his religion aren't sources of division, but in fact mediums of greater friendship, understanding and success.
– Steve Kerr
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
– Hildegard Knef
Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
– Juliette Lewis
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.
– Vince Lombardi
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.
– Richard Lugar
If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.
– Alan Ladd
When your physical environment is in alignment with your aspiration, success becomes the norm.
– Susan St. Lawrence
I never dreamed of publication and I never thought about success. Sometimes I wonder what it is doing to me as a person. I really value being good.
– Laurel Lee
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.
– Harry Lloyd
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
– Bobby Locke
To have faith where you cannot see; to be willing to work on in the dark; to be conscious of the fact that, so long as you strive for the best, there are better things on the way, this in itself is success.
– Katherine Logan
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
– Norman Mailer
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.
– Og Mandino
I don't worry about things as far as statistics are concerned. I just want to prepare the best I can and play hard and smart to help the team every week. We have a lot of talented people around me and when you have guys who want to play and to win and they're not selfish, you're going to be a success.
– Dan Marino
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
– Walter Martin
It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.
– Mary McAleese
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
– John McLaughlin
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.
– Paul J. Meyer
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.
– Paul J. Meyer
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.
– Maria Montessori
For true success, it matters what our goals are. And it matters how we go about attaining them. The means are as important as the ends. How we get there is as important as where we go.
– Tom Morris
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.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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.
– Eddie Murphy
Don't clean up code unless the cleanup is critical to the product's success.
– Steve Maguire
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.
– Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
– Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
– John McCormack