Success Quotes

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Her success is my success.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

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.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.