Success Quotes

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

We live within two environments: one is physical and surrounds us; the other is mental and is inside of us. Both can be designed to support your success.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

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