Quotes About Success

Cleaniness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.