Success Quotes

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.