Quotes About Success

God can make your enemies your footstool.

Studies show that your attitude will have a greater impact on your success in life than your IQ.

Berns made fifty-one pop chart singles in seven years;

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

So, to find flow, you need to choose one single goal; make sure your goal is meaningful to you; and try to push yourself to the edge of your abilities.

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Zum Erwerben eines Glücks gehört Fleiß und Geduld, und zur Erhaltung desselben gehört Mäßigung und Vorsicht. Langsam und Schritt für Schritt steigt man eine Treppe hinauf. Aber in einem Augenblick fällt man hinab, und bringt Wunden und Schmerzen genug mit auf die Erde.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?