Success Quotes

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

Control success before it controls you.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

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.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.