Success Quotes
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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.
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I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.
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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.
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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
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It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
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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.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.
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Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
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I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
