Success Quotes

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.