Success Quotes

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

We live within two environments: one is physical and surrounds us; the other is mental and is inside of us. Both can be designed to support your success.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.