Quotes About Success

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

Service skills are the foundation for your success.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.