Success Quotes

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.