Quotes about: 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.'
– Helen Hayes
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.
– R. D. Hitchcock
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.
– Homer
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
– Franklin P. Jones
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
– John Keats
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
– Reggie Leach
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
– Orison Swett Marden
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
– David C. McCullough
Nothing fails like success.
– Gerald Nachman
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.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
– Anna Pavlova
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.
– Anna Quindlen
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
– Jules Renard
Action is the foundational key to all success.
– Tony Robbins
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
– David Rockefeller
You always pass failure on the way to success.
– Mickey Rooney
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
– Arthur Rubinstein
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
– Vidal Sassoon
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
– Gerry Spence
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.
– Tina Turner
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
– Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
– Mark Twain
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
– Oscar Wilde
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.
– Oprah Winfrey
Success is never final, but failure can be.
– Bill Parcells
The road to success is always under construction.
– Arnold Palmer
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
– Bruce Springsteen
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
– William J. H. Boetcker
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
– Helen Keller
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
– Robert Collier
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
– Kid Rock
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
– Jack Welch
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
– Carlos Ghosn
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
– Florence Scovel Shinn
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
– Nicki Minaj
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
– Lucinda Williams
You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.
– Julie Benz
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
– Napoleon Hill
You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
– Kevin O'Leary
You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.
– Michael Bloomberg
You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.
– Joe Nichols
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
– Thomas Wolfe
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
– Johnny Depp
You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
– Johnny Depp
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
– Zig Ziglar
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
– Jim Dale
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
– Zig Ziglar
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
– Dave Van Ronk
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
– Linda Evans
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
– Lou Gerstner
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
– W. Clement Stone
Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.
– Shahrukh Khan
Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
– Paula Radcliffe
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
– Anne Rice
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
– Neil Sheehan
Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.
– Mika Brzezinski
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
– Rita Dove
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
– Glenn Beck
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.
– Paul Simon
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
– Martha Stewart
Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.
– David Puttnam
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
– Camille Paglia
With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'
– David Schwimmer
With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
– Donny Osmond
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
– Benjamin Carson
With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
– Katherine Jenkins
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.
– Leon Panetta
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
– Michelle Obama
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
– Steven Spielberg
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
– Jeffrey Archer
When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
– Jessica Simpson
When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
– Christina Aguilera
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.
– Nigel Farage
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
– Charles Schumer
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
– Enya
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
– Mason Cooley
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
– Kiana Tom
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
– Richard Stallman
When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.
– Marilyn Manson
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
– Francois Truffaut
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
– Lauren Bacall
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
– Anna Pavlova
What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
– Jim Carrey
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
– Jennifer Garner
Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
– Peter Guber
Well, success does not mean doing well.
– Shirley MacLaine
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
– Richard Branson
Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.
– Novak Djokovic
Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
– R. Kelly
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
– Robert Sternberg
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
– Henry Louis Gates
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
– Anthony Holden
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
– Bill Gates
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
– Jerry Garcia