The Of Success Quotes

In life, success begets success.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

Some people are more affected by, I hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others.

The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

The celebration of one success launches a thousand more.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don't be afraid to move instinctually.

we know the art of success; never forget

The key to success is radical generosity.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

It [success] is really by mistake.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

People always see the success but they never see what's gone on before it. Everyone thinks it happens over night.

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

True champions are team players.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.