Success Quotes

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.