Success Quotes

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.