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Success Quotes


"The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind."


"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."


"I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful."


"Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission."


"We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of."


"Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it."


"The Joseph in you must rise to the challenges of life and turn them into gold."


"Entrepreneurs don't just like to win, they live to win. Winning is not just their habit but also their lifestyle."


"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."


"Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress."


"Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve."


"Your level of success in life will always be a reflection of how well you use your time on a daily basis."


"Victory - a matter of staying power."


"Don't wait, just sweat."


"Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success."


"Limits are always extended, never broken."



"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."



"We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated."


"I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show."


"I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back."


"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."


"I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one."


"I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take."


"It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential."


"No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it."


"Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law."


"I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much."


"Independent films have a very different cachet than success films."


"If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do."



"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."



"I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure."


"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."


"All things are possible to those who believe in themselves. Live a life without limits. Believe in yourself. Break through the ceiling of limitation. Develop high confidence and connect yourself to total success."



"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure."


"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."


"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."


"We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success."
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