Success Quotations | Page 7

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.

I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

I think the success of any brand reboot is to acknowledge the heritage but to embrace and interpret it in a way that makes it relevant and wearable to the modern consumer.

While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

'Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere.

I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.

St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

The more you reason the less you create.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.

There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that coming-of-age period of life.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.