Success Quotations | Page 3

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

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

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

The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.

Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor.

Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that.

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And in France it's more like you don't have to show you have success.

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'