Quotes about: success

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
– Eliot Spitzer
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
– Andrew Bernstein
The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
– Ricky Williams
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
– Marquis de Sade
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
– Arthur C. Brooks
The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
– Joan Jett
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
– Edward Everett Hale
The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.
– Criss Angel
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
– Aesop
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
– Hedy Lamarr
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.
– Tony Kushner
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
– Simon Mainwaring
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
– Brian Tracy
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
– Julius Erving
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
– Neal Boortz
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
– Beth Henley
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
– P. J. O'Rourke
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
– Henry Louis Gates
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
– Celine Dion
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
– Orison Swett Marden
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
– Albert Schweitzer
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
– Arthur Erickson
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
– Zig Ziglar
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
– Michael Faraday
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
– Robert Collier
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
– John Cusack
The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.
– Mark Zandi
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
– James D. Watson
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
– George Henry Lewes
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
– Mercy Otis Warren
The best revenge in the world is success.
– Suge Knight
The best revenge is massive success.
– Frank Sinatra
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
– George Eliot
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
– Samuel Smiles
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
– Millicent Fawcett
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
– James Cash Penney
That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
– Monica Seles
That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
– Rush Limbaugh
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.
– Casey Kasem
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
– Abraham Lincoln
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
– Mitt Romney
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
– William Feather
Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
– Lucy Powell
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
– Mark Skousen
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
– Swami Vivekananda
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
– P. G. Wodehouse
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
– Mikhail Bakunin
Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
– Naveen Jain
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
– James Cash Penney
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
– Arabella Weir
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
– Dave Matthews
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
– Henry David Thoreau
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
– Barbra Streisand
Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
– William Shatner
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
– Soichiro Honda
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
– Sir Walter Scott
Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
– Ben Jonson
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
– William James
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
– Jesse Jackson
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
– Michael Korda
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
– Nate Silver
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
– George A. Sheehan
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
– Marilyn Monroe
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
– Lillian Hellman
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
– Mike Ditka
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
– Elias Canetti
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
– Walter Lippmann
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
– Elias Canetti
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
– Booker T. Washington
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
– Sylvester Stallone
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
– George Allen, Sr.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
– Earl Nightingale
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
– Sparky Anderson
Success is survival.
– Leonard Cohen
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
– Orison Swett Marden
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
– John Wooden
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
– Michelle Obama
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
– Al Bernstein
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
– Albert Schweitzer
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
– Coco Chanel
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
– Sumner Redstone
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
– Condoleezza Rice
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
– Shahrukh Khan
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
– Graham Greene
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
– John Wooden
Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
– Marlon Wayans
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
– Kevin Spacey
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
– Herschel Walker
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
– Jeanne Moreau
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
– Johnny Cash
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
– Sarah Caldwell
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
– Jon Bon Jovi
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
– Christopher Reeve
Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.
– Cat Deeley
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
– Pablo Picasso