Quotes About Success

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

A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

Hidden behind your fears and your failures is the success you seek.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.

We always lead with hits. If you want to have success, you have to be riding a hit.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.

Life and success are about what you choose to believe.

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!

When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.