Success Quotes

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

The road to success runs uphill.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

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.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.