Quotes About Success

I remember from childhood how easy it was to imagine, how hard to create: the difference between what I could conceive of and what I could actually do was bewildering. In adulthood I have learned that to envisage is nothing: success is a hard currency, earned by actual excellence.

What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

Reputation is a prize you've won for yourself with self-denial and hard work. If you throw it away, what have you left to fall back on? How will you contrive to live without it?" -p. 198

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

I feel the Conservatives are doing really well both in attracting votes from British Indians and also having successful British Indians in the party.

I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry voting. It doesn't come from God. It doesn't change your life, really.

A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

I don't call myself a writer, much as I'd love to be. An author, maybe - the novel 'Voyage' made $870,000. Writer, no. Nor am I an actor. I was never on the stage.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

We played nightclubs for seven years solid before we got a record deal, and then 'Cowboys From Hell' and 'Vulgar Display Of Power,' we toured non-stop four years for those records, and we developed the most brutal, loyal fan base on the face of the earth.

We made this mountain with 'Vulgar Display Of Power,' and that was a pretty damn tall mountain to climb.

All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.

Jobs for America's Graduates is all about helping the most vulnerable and underserved youth succeed in school, on the job, and in college. This is not a partisan issue in any way.

That's why the Kanye Wests and the Drakes are just in a different league, because they have the ability to be vulnerable and open.

We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like that - there's something deeper and vulnerable. There has to be, because they're human beings.

People who are at the top have no problem being vulnerable and putting themselves in a position to fail. That's why they have the success that they have.