Quotes About Success

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

Life lives only in success.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

Even people's dreams don't match the reality of my life. I don't dream, I set goals and accomplish them.

Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.

If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you're not accomplishing very much.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Professional golfer... what a life.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.