Success Quotes

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

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.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

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.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

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.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

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

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.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.