Quotes About Success

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with Night Shift and Splash.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.

I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.