The Of Success Quotes

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

Guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies, a ton of success, I mean, come on bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn't even trying.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

Governor Romney has been a great success in business. He has been a great success as executive, as governor of Massachusetts. I think that's the kind of guy we want in the White House.

I would say that in the past year I have had to begrudgingly admit that I am finally a success of some level, sure.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.