Success Quotes

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.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The best revenge in the world is success.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.