Success Quotes
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Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.
Jillian Mayer
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Money is a terrible reason for a band to split, but most often that is the reason. Followed by ego, especially if there’s one guy writing all the songs. Success is another reason, and toxic influences creep in over time.
Jean-Jacques Burnel The Stranglers
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If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
L. Neil Smith
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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
Harold Washington
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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
Miguel de Unamuno
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As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
Oswald Chambers
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You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
Billy Eckstine
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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
Patrick Stewart
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Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.
Brian Celio
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One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
Napoleon Hill
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
Ward McAllister
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In any creative field-any creative field-you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that-potential-and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others. (p. 21)
Dave Sim
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The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.
Melissa Etheridge
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If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk
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I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.
David Chang
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I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
Lydia Lunch
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Success came to us at an age where we could enjoy it. We went through a lot of hard times, so we appreciate success all the more now.
Matt Lucas
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You'll never make a success of yourself when you're doing an impersonation of somebody else.
Katherine Ryan
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I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.
Brian Grazer
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I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.
Katherine Johnson
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Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?
Brian Tracy
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In an industry that celebrates personal sacrifice as a symbol of commitment, you might not consider 'making sure everyone gets home for dinner' to be a mark of success, but creating and maintaining that culture is one of the things I'm most proud of.
David Einhorn