Success Quotes
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You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
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Success demands sacrifices. I believe it's a small price to pay for the adulation and love one receives.
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How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
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I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote between takes. So I'd try to sing new songs off the top of my head. I had rather less than spectacular success on that. But a lot of my songs were done that way.
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I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.
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When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.
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Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.
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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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“Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.”
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I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.
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When success comes, it changes everything, so I'm interested in portraying what that's like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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There's a new success model, and us and some of our peers are now starting to prove that TV and very traditional content also works on the Internet, specifically on YouTube, and it can rival television audiences and television production value. 'MyMusic' is proof of that, having a successful run and now coming back for a second season.
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The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
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Reagan was the most important American political figure of the latter half of the 20th century. No one was more central to his emergence and success than Bill Buckley.
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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.
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Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
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Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
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When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong.
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Nothing comes easy. Success doesn’t just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.
