Quotes About Success

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Some people who make it to where we are, life changes for them, they're treated differently, they're recognized. They're 6-foot-6, 280 pounds and people automatically know what they do for a living.

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going form job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.