Success Quotations | Page 9

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I'm being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

Sabanci has many years of experience in the tire reinforcement industry, and we are committed to the success of this business through an advanced technology relationship with KoSa and a strong commitment to our customers.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.

We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments.

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.

If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

I didn't realize the connection between the mullet and success. For sure, you have to have a little bit of hockey hair - a little bit of flow, as they say. A lot of guys have fun with their hockey hair, so I'll try to keep it a little long.

I think it's nice to work and then have success.

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.

I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.