Quotes about: success

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
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
– Derek Jeter
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
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?
– Abdul Kalam
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
– John F. Kennedy
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
One fails forward toward success.
– Charles F. Kettering
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
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
– Victor Kiam
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.
– Victor Kiam
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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
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.
– 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
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
– Herbert Kaufman
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
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.
– Ann Landers
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
– Ann Landers
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
– Doug Larson
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
– Tommy Lasorda
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.
– Max Lerner
I've had great success being a total idiot.
– Jerry Lewis
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
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
– Vince Lombardi
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
– Charles Luckman
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
– John Madden
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
– Norman Mailer
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.
– Maxwell Maltz
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
– Nelson Mandela
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
– Og Mandino
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
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
– Orison Swett Marden
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
– Orison Swett Marden
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
– Orison Swett Marden
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
– Orison Swett Marden
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
– Orison Swett Marden
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
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.
– W. Somerset Maugham
It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.
– Mary McAleese
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
– Mitch McConnell
Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
– Bryant H. McGill
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
– John McLaughlin
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.
– Peter McWilliams
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
– Margaret Mead
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.
– Golda Meir
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
– Bernard Meltzer
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
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
– Paul Meyer
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
– Ashley Montagu
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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
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.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
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
Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
– Bernie Mac
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.
– Sydney Madwed
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 in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
– Ralph Marston
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
To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
– John McDonald
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
– John McDonald
Let us realize that:the privilege to work is a gift,the power to work is a blessing,the love of work is success!
– David O. McKay
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
– Ed Mcmahon
Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.
– S. H. Miller
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
– Dan Millman
If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.
– Robert Montgomery