The Of Success Quotes

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.

I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

While I enjoy and have enjoyed great success building my own personal apparel and accessories collections, my greatest passion has and will always be real estate.

The key to success is not what you do, it is how you feel about what you are doing.

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

A lot of people plan for failure, but they don't plan for success, and that's a big problem, especially in the TV world 'cause you're trying to find out what your show is.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

Success supposes endeavour.

I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.