Success Quotations | Page 2

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

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.

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.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

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.

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

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

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.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

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

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

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.

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.

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.