Success Quotations | Page 5

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.

I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

All I can say is that I have arrived with the desire to be a success at Barca, that I am hungry to win titles.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

I feel truly blessed by Forever 21's success.

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about... and make a few million along the way, then I have been successful.

The recognition thing started to happen in 2009 when 'Skins' season three had come out and we were on TV. It used to happen much more when we were in the height of our success, but I never really saw it as a chore or anything like that. It was just quite exciting - you had fans.

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.

My greatest success story has been my family.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.