Success quotes

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

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.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

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.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

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.

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?

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

Success breeds success.

Her success is my success.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

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.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.