Success Quotations | Page 2

Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.

I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.

There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there's always someone with more contacts; there's always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think your job is just to be there 100% - you work hard, and there are no shortcuts to success.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

I started to practise shooting more seriously, more than once a week. I wasn't very good at it before, but I got a lot better. I've also become a little bit stronger on the tracks, too, which has increased my chances of success.

Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what you want and take the steps to achieve it, even if that sometimes means playing gigs in tiny clubs.

Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.

I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.

Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say what I want and dance to my own tune, even if sometimes it's like nobody is listening. The trade-off is you stay 'cult' and resign yourself to a very modest level of what most people would call success.

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.

The road to success is always under construction.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.