Success Quotes

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.