Success Quotes

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Her success is my success.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.