Quotes about: success

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
– Whoopi Goldberg
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
– Arthur C. Brooks
We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.
– Mike Peters
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
– Rupert Everett
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
– Arianna Huffington
We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
– Vivienne Westwood
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
– Michelle Obama
We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
– Michelle Obama
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
– Samuel Smiles
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
– Whitfield Diffie
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
– Katherine Dunham
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
– Alan Shearer
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
– Gary Player
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
– Shane Leslie
We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
– Marco Rubio
We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.
– Susan Wojcicki
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
– Paul Sweeney
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
– Ian Botham
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
– Carl Lewis
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
– Harrison Ford
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
– Maxine Hong Kingston
To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
– Hugh Jackman
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
– Henry J. Heinz
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
– Walter Pater
To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.
– Roger Moore
Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
– Jason Bateman
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
– Claude M. Bristol
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
– Ethel Waters
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
– Alejo Carpentier
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
– Abdul Kalam
This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.
– Kristen Stewart
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
– Napoleon Hill
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
– Andrew Carnegie
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
– David Joseph Schwartz
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
– Zhang Ziyi
They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
– Mahalia Jackson
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
– Fidel Castro
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
– Major Taylor
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
– Jodi Picoult
There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
– Wilbur Smith
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
– Bryan Adams
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
– John Osborne
There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
– Miley Cyrus
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
– Kin Hubbard
There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
– Ricky Williams
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
– Jim Hightower
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
– Paul Bryant
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
– Barack Obama
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
– Christopher Morley
There is no success without hardship.
– Sophocles
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
– Anita Roddick
There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
– Javier Bardem
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
– Marcus Garvey
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
– Carl Lewis
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
– Lauren Conrad
There is little success where there is little laughter.
– Andrew Carnegie
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
– Sandra Bernhard
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
– Colin Powell
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.
– Enya
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
– Bette Midler
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
– Denis Waitley
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
– Tom Peters
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
– Sir William Osler
The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
– Michael Mandelbaum
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
– Bela Lugosi
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
– Ray Kroc
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
– Arthur C. Brooks
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
– Anna Neagle
The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.
– Tiger Woods
The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
– Rob Brydon
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
– Natalie Imbruglia
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.
– Enya
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
– Alice James
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.
– Julio Iglesias
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
– William Lloyd Garrison
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.
– Robert Kiyosaki
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
– Howard Nemerov
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
– George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
– Tony Dungy
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
– Wilma Mankiller
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
– Richard Gere
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
– Colin R. Davis
The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
– Naveen Jain
The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
– Vicente Fox
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
– Fiona Apple
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
– Danny Boyle
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.
– Vince Lombardi
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
– Alan Hansen
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
– Jonathan Swift
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
– Charlie Sheen
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
– Bruce Springsteen
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
– Henry James
The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
– Gwen Stefani
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
– Alan Price