The Of Success Quotes

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

Success is.... happiness. Is that too Deepak Chopra?

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well.

If you develop an image of success, health, abundance, joy, peace, happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

It's been said that commitment is another name for success.

There is no success without failure and losses.

The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.