Quotes About Success

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

When my girl do better than me, I still win. When I do better than her, she still wins.

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

Soros is the best loss taker I've ever seen. He doesn't care whether he wins or loses on a trade. If a trade doesn't work, he's confident enough about his ability to win on other trades that he can easily walk away from the position.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins.

My theory on momentum is that the best way to produce it is through small, hard-fought victories that lead to bigger battles and bigger wins. Winning builds momentum.

You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.

My aim is to be the best in the world and perform in each of Pakistan's wins.

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

The line between winning and losing is very thin, and wins give you prestige, stability, and continuity.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

I'm in my best moment, seven straight wins, five by submission, two by knockout. I don't ever leave it in the hands of the judges.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

I think the more wins you have, it shows that your players are more talented so it opens up your ability to upgrade the team if necessary.

I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins.

It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.

All great players want to be the reason the team wins.